Playing Yourself Quotes

Sometimes your characters in films do things that you wouldn't do. You're not playing yourself all the time.

You really are never playing an opponent. You are playing yourself.

You're never really playing yourself. You're always acting. It's an illusion that you're really playing yourself. The only time I'm playing myself is when I'm at home!

Stop hiding! Stop holding yourself back and playing yourself down! Stop worrying about how you look and what people are saying. Stop listening to what people are saying and trying to find out if they are whispering about you. Stop waiting for someone to tell you that you are okay or to make you feel special. Life is special! It is a special gift. This is your life! Now take your gift and live it out in the open! Decide today that you are going to live out loud!

I've played myself before this ["Brent Spiner"] - and I've played myself since, for that matter - and playing yourself one of the most difficult characters you can play, 'cause God knows most of us don't know who that is.

Every character I get to play has some element of who I am, but there's no fun in playing yourself. At least, for me, there isn't.

Anything you are shows up in your music - jazz is whatever you are, playing yourself, being yourself, letting your thoughts come through.

Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?

Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.