#yourself

Doing press is like eating at McDonald's: while it's going on it's vaguely enjoyable - you're seduced by your own vanity and taking yourself rather seriously - but immediately afterwards you feel sick. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#doing #eating #enjoyable #feel #going

I went to dinner with my mother-in-law and I just realized I was talking in sound bites to her and expecting her to laugh every time I said anything or be jotting something down in a notebook. So you have to kind of really have a talk with yourself after you've done a press tour and say, 'Chill out!' ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#anything #bites #chill #chill out #dinner

It's dangerous talking about yourself too much because you find yourself talking in sound bites. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#because #bites #dangerous #find #much

You are exposing yourself all the time as an actor. There's the risk of being thought of as bad or boring or unattractive. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#bad #being #boring #exposing #risk

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul. ↗

— Saint Teresa

#continually #love #make #many #melt

We live in capitalism, and capitalism is defined by the production line, and the production line is defined by specificity. If you see yourself as an artist, which I do, then you can't be limited by that. You can't let somebody tell you, 'Well, you can only draw this kind of picture or write that kind of book.' ↗

— Walter Mosley

#book #capitalism #defined #draw #i

If you have a recital to do, you have to memorize the songs. I never use music when I do recitals. It produces an instant barrier, both for yourself and the audience. ↗

— Bryn Terfel

#barrier #both #i #i do #instant

There's nothing like getting yourself into character and seeing a different person. It really wears on your vanity. ↗

— Elizabeth Moss

#different #different person #getting #into #like

Facing the press is not easy, but because you have to go, you have to try to take a lot of positive things for yourself from these face-to-face meetings. ↗

— Jose Mourinho

#easy #face-to-face #facing #go #lot

When you find yourself on stage singing and you are embarrassed about what you are singing in front of your peers, then you have to think about your priorities. ↗

— Alison Moyet

#embarrassed #find #front #peers #priorities