#yourself

The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself. ↗

— Tom Cruise

#else #exciting #explain #how #i

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. ↗

— e. e. cummings

#any #battle #being #day #doing

Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#anything #come #disagree #find #get

As long as you as an individual... can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as 'one of the faithful,' one of those people who can say, 'Well, look, something's going to happen! Let's just keep trying. Let's not give up. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#convince #described #faithful #forward #give

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself. ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

#childish #else #nice #pretending #profession

Yoga is a great thing and meditation is also great to get connected to yourself more. ↗

— Ziggy Marley

#connected #get #great #great thing #meditation

It's true. In America, you can reinvent yourself at any turn. And, you know, if things aren't going well for you in life, everyone says, change, become someone different. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#any #become #change #different #everyone

There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#apart #back #cheese #down #edges

If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore. ↗

— Denis Johnson

#anybody #anymore #anything #certain #enterprise

If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you've got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that you can commit yourself to, you can jump off the proverbial cliff with, and have a great time, and the audiences respond to that. ↗

— Dwayne Johnson

#check #cliff #comedy #comes #commit