Quotes About Self

I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.

Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.

I'm a very complex person. I have different people inside me, but it's still me.

When I'm a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It's somebody else up there, an actor playing a role. I keep myself out of it.

Anybody who's dealt with addiction and depression knows that sometimes they can make you forget who you are and kind of bring out a different person, somebody you don't know as well.

You cannot force somebody to be a different person.

I've always believed in the concept that you are a different person on the court than you are off. I understand how that works.

I try to remain the same player and person that I am all the time. Eventually, you grow up and think a little bit differently. But the core of the mind and the person is still the same as before. It is one of the main characteristics that it is important for me to stay the same.

My difficulties belong to me!

I love directing, and I will direct myself a few times.

It is not easy acting and directing yourself because you have to face the camera as well as look at the scene through the lens.

I would do a sort of violence to myself if I didn't express myself in the directly creative ways of writing, both words and music.

I've worked with very few directors who've asked of me what I asked of myself.

If the landscape changes, then I don't know who I am either. The landscape is a refracted autobiography. As it disappears you lose your sense of self.

If you want to be an entertainer, then go be an entertainer and give people what they want. If you want to be an artist, then you have to be true to yourself, and you have to be prepared to confront expectations - and you have to be prepared to disappoint your fans, too.

I think I've always had a disconnect from what I'm supposed to be like.

I think there's a real joy in going to see movies when you discover them yourself.

The very best design, I feel, is that which resonates so deeply that people can't help but discover something within themselves when they see it.

I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

I discovered myself!

In Colombia is where I discovered myself as a writer.

People who have discovered a purpose feel better, like themselves more, age more subtly, and live longer.

'Saathiya' is about love, discovering yourself through the way you love someone.

I am discovering myself as a director all the time.