#yours

At a certain point, you realize you have a responsibility more behind yourself and your need for adrenaline. I'm glad I did things in my 20s that were more reckless. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#behind #certain #certain point #did #glad

I realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses. ↗

— Richard Donner

#geniuses #i #motion #motion pictures #pictures

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. ↗

— Robert Duvall

#actor #always #chair #character #craft

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself. ↗

— Alice Walker

#any #around #be happy #get #got

Don't expect too much from yourself. What I like to do when I have a day off is make various cookie doughs and freeze them. Then I always have that on hand if I need it. ↗

— Giada De Laurentiis

#cookie #day #expect #freeze #hand

You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#alone #beings #build #come #else

Keep marching boys and girls. Keep marching ↗

— Rodman Philbrick

#faith #inspirational-attitude #attitude

When I feel like I'm doing my best work, there is a bit of a freedom, a bit of flight that you're not so much losing yourself but you're sort of in the zone. ↗

— Chris Cooper

#best work #bit #doing #feel #flight

And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#books #committee #decisions #deferring #instead

On the stage you develop a character that's different from yourself. In a film they're always saying, 'Walk over here. Say this line. Be you.' ↗

— Jon Cryer

#character #develop #different #film #here