For me, acting is all about the aesthetic. I just want to keep honing my craft. Not that I’m taking myself too seriously, but every artist should consider himself Picasso. Otherwise, you’re doing yourself an injustice. – Giovanni Ribisi
Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. – Henry David Thoreau
Being married is kind of like being a Ken-doll; you don’t get to dress yourself anymore. – Grover Norquist
Contrast the United States with any country on the face of the earth today and ask yourself whether the situation of the United States is not the best to be found. – Henry Cabot Lodge
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us. – Hermann Hesse
Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I find that it’s nice to work with somebody and spin off on someone else’s feelings. You get a little jaded by yourself. – Herb Alpert
Aim high and don’t sell yourself short. Know that you’re capable. Understand that a lot of people battle with a lot of things – depression, body image or whatever else – so know that it’s not just you. You’re not alone. – Holly Holm
If you focus on the things you can’t do, you’ll destroy yourself. Just remember everything you can do. – Giles Duley
Everything I do, writing, touring, travelling, it all comes from the punk and hardcore attitude, from that expression – from being open to try things but relying on yourself, taking what you have into the battle and making of it what you will, hoping you can figure it out as you go. Make some sense of it. – Henry Rollins
Many of us are walking around living smaller lives than we’re meant to live. Don’t allow yourself to dream smaller than you were meant to dream. – Hill Harper
What’s sad is that there is an addictive quality to that, to believing your own hype; to allowing yourself to become validated by others and no longer by yourself. That’s the danger of celebrity. – Giovanni Ribisi
Accept everything about yourself – I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end – no apologies, no regrets. – Henry Kissinger
There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them. – Greta Garbo
Actors are observers. They’re trying to have an understanding of human sensibility. And how do you have that accurate observation if you regard yourself as someone of great importance? When you’re the one constantly being observed, because they view you as a celebrity? It’s all wrong. – Hayden Christensen
For me, the best way to be as an artist is to be completely yourself, letting that vulnerability come through. – Gretchen Parlato
Being vulnerable is allowing yourself to trust. That’s hard for a lot of people to do. They feel a lot more secure if they kind of put walls around themselves. Then they don’t have to trust anybody but themselves. – Herbie Hancock
My head is in the game! Like ‘High School Musical’ taught me. I know what I want, and I know, too, now that you take your craft seriously, but you don’t have to take yourself seriously. – Haley Lu Richardson
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself. – George Bernard Shaw
The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest. – Gustave Flaubert
I think you always need to try your best, but at the same time you can only do what you can do, and you don’t need to beat yourself up about it. – Heidi Klum
Have you ever noticed when you look in a mirror, unless you’re really depressed or something, the person in the mirror generally looks a little more competent, a little more curious, a little more intelligent than you actually feel yourself to be? They often look more interesting and more soulful. – Gregory Maguire
My EP, ‘Room 93,’ was all about isolation – it was based on the idea of being in a hotel room and being totally alone with yourself or that other person. – Halsey
Not only was it nearly impossible to hear because of these huge rubber ears we had to wear, but we also had these huge furry hands which were absolutely useless, especially if you had to scratch yourself. – Helena Bonham Carter
What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism – which is the notion that it is by study that you make yourself a holy people – is nowhere present in Hebrew tradition before the end of the first or the beginning of the second century of the Common Era. – Harold Bloom
One of the hardest things to do in acting is to stop thinking about yourself and stop being self-conscious. – Hannah Murray