"[In my pre-success years] there was a constant hunger, measuring myself against other actors, and there was sometimes fear. But, there was always a need for self-improvement, to help with the struggle to make myself a better actor."

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Source : Source: collider.com

John Goodman

#Struggle Quotes #Self Quotes #Years Quotes

“Directing is genderless. The only thing...I love men.”
“For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that.”
“It's - as opposed to tape where you have a magnetic tape that's excited by frequencies that you hit, digital was a process where musical sounds are transferred to numbers and stored as numbers.”
“The libertarian thinks that this world is chiefly a stage for the swaggering ego; the conservative finds himself instead a pilgrim in a realm of mystery and wonder, where duty, discipline, and sacrifice are required-and where the reward is that love which passeth all understanding.”

Source : Russell Kirk (2014). “The Essential Russell Kirk: Selected Essays”, p.275, Open Road Media
“Well, the nice thing about animation, you don't even really have to account for yourself. All of the physical stuff that you work on as an actor, you just throw away.”
“Hollywood was not a place I dreamed of getting to. I never could take seriously the obsession people have about being a celebrity or getting to Hollywood - I was born next door.”
“You can't keep changing men, so you settle for changing your lipstick.”

Source : "Heather Locklear: What I've Learned". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
“After all, what is suffering but an awareness of suffering?”

Source : Nancy Farmer (2010). “The House of the Scorpion”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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