#myself

Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play. ↗

— Sam Shepard

#did #doing #earn #end #everything

I feel I'm anonymous in my work. When I look at the pictures, I never see myself; they aren't self-portraits. Sometimes I disappear. ↗

— Cindy Sherman

#disappear #feel #i #i feel #look

But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#characters #failings #find #had #hard

I try to stop and take a 10-second break and ask myself before I do something: One, is this going to improve my life for my children, or two, will there be a potential for something to go wrong here? ↗

— Tom Sizemore

#before #break #children #go #going

I watched myself put my paw in the bear trap on that one because there was this clause about leaving members. ↗

— Elliott Smith

#bear #because #clause #i #leaving

I enjoyed entertaining people since I was a little girl. There was nothing better than making people laugh. That, and the need to express myself in a safe environment. ↗

— Amy Weber

#enjoyed #entertaining #entertaining people #environment #express

If I thought I had hurt my chances of winning another major just because I was chasing money around, I'd wind up kicking myself. ↗

— Mike Weir

#around #because #chances #chasing #had

I would love to find myself in a position where I have to decide, 'Gosh, do I want to be on a series?' ↗

— Wil Wheaton

#find #gosh #i #love #myself

The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience. ↗

— Sally Ride

#change #experience #had #i #life

I knew that I was gay, I knew it. I just couldn't see myself as a gay woman, even though that's where my heart was. ↗

— Portia de Rossi

#gay #heart #i #just #knew