Famous Quotes: Yourself

I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That's the actor's craft - using yourself to create a character.
Use this quote  

But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.
Use this quote  

Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.
Use this quote  

I worked for the Office of Management and Budget in the White House, on nuclear energy policy. But I decided it would be much more fun to have a specialty food store, so I left Washington D.C. and moved to the Hamptons. And how glad I am that I did!
Use this quote  

I'm odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet.
Use this quote  

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
Use this quote  

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
Use this quote  

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.
Use this quote  

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Use this quote  

I won't undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace.
Use this quote  

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
Use this quote  

You should put time into learning your craft. It seems like people want success so quickly, way before they're ready.
Use this quote  

We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
Use this quote  

It's funny. When I saw the script in my inbox and it said 'Sparkle,' I thought, 'For real? It's really called 'Sparkle?'' I was wondering, too, how does 'Jordin Sparks as Sparkle' sound?
Use this quote  

When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however.
Use this quote  

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
Use this quote  

The energy of the crowd is insane. Twenty thousand people. It's the biggest jolt of adrenaline. It's very hard to explain. You know the old story about the woman lifting the car off her kid? It's in that realm. You can actually hurt yourself and not know it.
Use this quote  

It doesn't matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end.
Use this quote  

A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession.
Use this quote  

Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who wanders past.
Use this quote