Your basic physical makeup does influence the parts you’re offered. If you’re big, they cast you either dumb or tough, although there are exceptions. Clint Eastwood and James Arness carved out niches for themselves in...

The Right-wingers everywhere take themselves too seriously, whether in the U.S. or the U.K. And, by the way, so does the Left. The Left can take itself a little too seriously as well.

All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.

The people I respect the least are the ones that take themselves way too seriously.

Sometimes legends find themselves remembered more for what they have not done than for their accomplishments. But those resume gaps can also help drive them to achieve even greater things in new arenas.

Secrets don’t stay secrets very long, even when journalists decide to censor themselves.

We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that’s what’s happening. Too many people there. They can’t support themselves – and it’s not an inhuman thing to say. It’s the case. Until humanity manages...

Artists should never think of themselves as an idol. Fame is a side effect of one’s work.

The prisoners eyed the clothes some time, and laughed a good deal among themselves before they put them on.

So, these political activities will create friction in and of themselves, and in this environment of friction there’ll be additional violence.

Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place.

Unless there is meaningful change in Syria and an end to the crackdown, President Assad and those around him will find themselves isolated internationally and discredited within Syria.

Who said that artists should sell their soul, expose everything about themselves?

There is one common thing in superstars – enthusiasm and humility towards their work. Off sets, they are big stars for others, and they carry themselves the way they want to. When they are working,...

Some people give themselves over to their most evil desires, and those people becomes evil. But in general, it’s reductive to think of evil as something foreign and separate from the rest of us. Evil...

It kills me when I see some metal band trying to pass themselves off as an ‘alternative band.’

My first four books, from ‘Fight Club’ to ‘Choke,’ dealt with personal identity issues. The crises the narrators found themselves in were generated by themselves.

I say to myself that I shall try to make my life like an open fireplace, so that people may be warmed and cheered by it and so go out themselves to warm and cheer.

I’m proud that my clients are working to support themselves and those who depend on them.

A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.

I really trust Susan Stroman. I really think she knows what she’s doing. I really trust Andrew Lippa and John August. I think they have proven themselves over and over again and know what to...

Superman when he goes after someone is essentially not trying to beat them, he is trying to save them from themselves… You’re looking at a God who walks amongst men!

I know why people lie to themselves in life, but I’ll never understand the appeal of the dishonest theater where the actor doesn’t make some earnest attempt to include their own honest humanity in their...

Together, for over 50 years, King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia have devoted themselves to Spain.

The best musicians or sound-artists are people who never considered themselves to be artists or musicians.

I am a big fan of Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller, who have carved a niche for themselves. I think doing different kind of films gives you longevity and the ability to set yourself apart.

Seriously, these days I tend to shut up in terms of external analysis and DO try to let things speak for themselves, while still trying to get some depth into them.

Every single director-actor I talked to, from Warren Beatty to Clint Eastwood to George Clooney, said the biggest mistake they made is not shooting enough footage of themselves.

I always encourage people to pay themselves first, so I really advocate setting up direct deposit for your paycheck and establishing an automatic transfer so that part of each paycheck goes straight into your savings...

Increasingly, I’m inspired by entrepreneurs who run nonprofit organizations that fund themselves, or for-profit organizations that achieve social missions while turning a profit.

Americans work a long away ahead of themselves because of the size of the place. To make any impact at all you have to promote yourself with live performances ages before a release.

In the old days, a con man would be good looking, suave, well dressed, well spoken and presented themselves real well. Those days are gone because it’s not necessary. The people committing these crimes are...

Talking to actors is the same as talking to any other artists; it’s getting into the moment for them, and making sure they can lose themselves in the performance!

I think recharging is important, absolutely. Every now and then, you need maybe a couple of weeks to just chill out and let your emotions balance themselves out a little bit.

I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current.

The first lines of defence against criminals are the victims themselves.

I’m not one of these ‘the characters write themselves; the story just fell out of me’ kind of writers. Wish it was like that.

I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them...

I’m for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions...

Women are always told, ‘You’re not going to make it, its too difficult, you can’t do that, don’t enter this competition, you’ll never win it,’ – they need confidence in themselves and people around them...

The earliest stories in Genesis were not written to tell primeval history. They were written to tell readers about themselves and about God.

It’s only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.

All men think all men mortal, but themselves.

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they’re better than other human beings.

You know, technology CEOs like to think of themselves as rock ‘n roll stars.

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

Some actors can distance themselves from the parts they play, but I fall into the category who use bits of themselves.

I’ve zeroed in on what you would call action and excellence… Everybody who does anything to try to succeed has to give the best of themselves, and art has made me pull the best out...

For even these are no less bestowed on him of pure grace, than are righteousness and salvation themselves.