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You're not a star until you love yourself. Directors, yeah, they've got to love their own philosophies. But actors have to really love themselves.
Shekhar Kapur
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Style is really very personal. It's kind of timeless. Style is really about how you put yourself together. It's something very personal.
Nina Garcia
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I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself.
Omar Sharif
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As an actor, there's very little you can do if people don't want to see you. Just getting yourself into the room to audition is tough.
Domhnall Gleeson
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People make basic assumptions based on what they have now. But you have to ask yourself, 'Is this really what people are going to be doing in five years?' Very few people ask themselves what they would actually want instead if they could wave a magic wand.
Drew Houston
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If you're going to be that kind of actor and go way out there, it's really important to take care of yourself and have a safe place, whatever that is.
Annabella Sciorra
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If you're not a real chameleon of an actor and if you're not one of those guys who can really shape-change themselves all the time, one of the ways to keep pushing yourself and keep changing is to be in different kinds of movies.
Ethan Hawke
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The thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don't really know what they are or where they are. They're not very well understood. You don't know what they want from you. So it's the kind of thing you don't even know how to defend yourself against. Anything that's unknown and mysterious is very scary.
Oren Peli
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During the songs, you transcend yourself. The best way to be in the performance is to be without pause and be essentially in the moment, in that moment of expression.
Florence Welch
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My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years.
Lee Trevino
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People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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You rarely, in the professional world, have the chance to express yourself as an individual.


Gillian Armstrong
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Acting for me is like a ping-pong game. That's the secret of acting. When you have a really good actor, I always want to be as good as he is or she is.
Sibel Kekilli
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Surprise, surprise! I have a band! I'm really excited that we have a song on the soundtrack of 'American Reunion' for that very reason.
Thomas Ian Nicholas
I think that it's hard for vain people to be funny. I think you can look any way you want as long as you have a good sense of humor about yourself. People who are concerned with their looks and what they're wearing and how they present themselves tend to have less of a sense of humor about themselves.
Taran Killam
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My advice to new actors is: Don't be lazy. Go after what you desire. Don't heed the commonplace advice that is meant to discourage you. If you want it, go and get it. Be willing to work hard, and be patient. Be kind to yourself.
Judith Hoag
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I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do.
Joan Jett
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I'm very happy with my lot. I like the variety I get. You don't want to spend your life repeating yourself. It's true of any kind of artist, you want to explore as wide and far as you can go, so that's what I've been trying to do.
Toni Collette
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A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.


Robert Baden-Powell
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Your mind can't always tell the difference between pretend and reality if you pretend too long; or if you go too deep and really believe in what you're doing. If you're going to be that kind of actor and go way out there, it's really important to take care of yourself and have a safe place, whatever that is.
Annabella Sciorra
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