To You Quotes
I know who I am. I don't have to brag. I know what I contributed. I know what I did. You think you can do it better? Hey, go right ahead. The stage is yours.
Grandchildren now don't write a thank you for the Christmas presents. They are walking on their pants with their cap on backward, listening to the Enema Man and Snoopy, Snoopy Poop Dog.
Was it Gorky who had said, "If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered them in vain, indeed you have lived in vain".
When you're young, you haven't the experience, when you're old you haven't the strength.
Most important, for openers, work six hours a day, seven days a week for six years. Then if you like it you can get serious about it.
Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love?
In every job, relationship, or life situation there is inevitably some turbulence. Learn to laugh at it. It is part of what you do and who you are.
Before all, you need to know who you are, what you believe in, and what you stand for. Be how you want to be received.
If you believe that God put you here to act, then you have to be different. Go into casting offices, with something other girls don't have
Tell me what you want, and then I'll put in what I want... after I'm done with my codependent providing for you, I'll get a little for me too.
A woman over 30 will never wake you in the middle of the night to ask, "What are you thinking?". She doesn't care what you think.
If you have your own agenda and your own style and you don't easily conform to what the masses are doing, you're looked upon as being difficult. Whereas, I think of it as just being an individual.
I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love.
The small and simple things you choose to do today will be magnified into great and glorious blessings tomorrow.
Treat other animals as friends and they become friends. Treat other animals as family and they become family. Give other animals your love and they will love you in return.
You have to be pretty tough to be an actor, and you have to be pretty certain what you want. You can't waffle through this business.
Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before people. Among people, one must be conscious of one's dignity.
One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn't like you. Especially when you don't know what you've done to deserve it.
When you feel yourself lacking something, send your thoughts towards your Intimate and search for the Divinity that lives within you.
Visualize what you want to do before you do it. Visualization is so powerful that when you know what you want, you will get it.
How can you call it a sacrifice when you choose to do something because you believe in it?
I'm also not going to explain something just because I said it in a rap. Take what you want from it.
If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.
It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
Age is how you feel. If you take care of yourself, you'll be able to do the same things. You may not do it as often. But you can still do it.
I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.I put my family last. Because if you don't, if you put them first, they never thank you. You'll never get a word of thanks from them.
Don't let anyone make you feel like you're not good enough, smart enough or cool enough. Do your own thing.
Black audiences are hard. They always think they're better than you. So you got to come with a little extra to satisfy them.
Be yourself on stage. Nobody else can be you and you have the law of supply and demand covered.
The only way we’ll ever know what it’s like to be you is if you work your best at being you as often as you can, and keep reminding yourself: That’s where home is.
Obviously, you always want to win, but you want to win by skiing a race that you're proud of and you feel like you really challenged yourself and left it all out there.
Start with a picture of your goal as already achieved in the future, and work back to the present. Imagine the steps that you would have taken to get from where you are now to where you want to be.
Clarity is essential. Knowing exactly what you want builds your self-confidence immeasurably.
