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Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to say something. On occasions you can find yourself on a film set where the person who is wearing the director's hat is only trying to justify his position.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

Why do you think so many actors are only half-developed people? It's very easy when you're a young actor to have these intense, explosive friendships for short periods of time, because you can control what's shown of you. Then you go on to your next job and reinvent yourself again. I think it's important to find something constant.

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.

Don't take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves.

Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you'll be watching TV, and it'll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you'll actually find yourself thinking, 'I don't want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to 'The Flintstones?''

The trap for an actor is that you become too successful at what you're trying to do, and you can find yourself stuck there.

If you find yourself in a movie that you have questions about, it's not a compromise to your integrity.

I think that no matter how much you don't like yourself or the drama of your life you can still find some comedy in it.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

I'm not going to tell a person how to think, don't believe in that. What I want to do, when I write these books, is just to say don't be so sure of yourself. Let me pull the carpet out from underneath you, and let's see if you can still find the footing.

You have to find the place where you abandon everything of yourself. Then you can let something else happen.

Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.

I find that once you start helping others, it makes you feel better about yourself. It helps you figure out what you want to do with your own life.

You make sacrifices to become a mother, but you really find yourself and your soul.

The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them.

You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, 'I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.'

To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.

That's what I love about acting, you get to find little pieces of yourself in every character you play.

It is not easy to find something that will intrigue and bind your interest and enthusiasm. This you must seek for yourself.

Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.

Well, softness and femininity like yours people don't expect of me; so when they find me emotional and capable of real vulnerability, they're surprised.

I don't like rock. Honestly, I like to listen to it, but it's not for me. There's a lot of musical genres that I find interesting, but they don't suit me. It's one thing to listen to different genres, but to perform a genre that isn't yours is counterproductive.

It was just this interesting, my first, the first time you hear your child in any way criticise you. It's the worst review of your life and it's really relieving to find out that they don't know what they're saying.

I run like an electric golf cart. Now I look at eating as a way to feed my body and keep me younger. It's not about starving your body, but treating your body like a Ferrari. You don't put in the crappiest gas you can find. You use supreme. In the long term, you'll run clean.

It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar.

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.