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I'm The Type Of Person Who Is Always Going To Be Somewhat Dissatisfied With Myself. I'm Never Going To Be Smart Enough. I'm Never Going To Be A Good Enough Father And Husband. I'm Never Going To Be A Good Enough Actor For Myself. I Just Never Will Be, And I Have To Get Comfortable With Waking Up Every Day And Trying To Move Some Little Increment Closer To The Person I Have Always Dreamed Of Being. This Is The Journey.

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I'm The Type Of Person Who Is Always Going To Be Somewhat Dissatisfied With Myself. I'm Never Going To Be Smart Enough. I'm Never Going To Be A Good Enough Father And Husband. I'm Never Going To Be A Good Enough Actor For Myself. I Just Never Will Be, And I Have To Get Comfortable With Waking Up Every Day And Trying To Move Some Little Increment Closer To The Person I Have Always Dreamed Of Being. This Is The Journey.

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I'm Used To People Clapping At The End Of The Movie.

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Don’t Compare Yourself To Others. That’s When You Start To Lose Confidence In Yourself.

Confidence In Yourself

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Reading... There Have Been Millions And Billions And Billions And Gazillions Of People That Have Lived Before All Of Us. There's No New Problem You Could Have - With Your Parents, With School, With A Bully, With Anything. There's No Problem You Can Have That Someone Hasn't Already Solved And Wrote About It In A Book.

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There’s A Redemptive Power That Making A Choice Has Rather Than Feeling Like You’re An Effect To All The Things That Are Happening. Make A Choice. Just Decide What It’s Gonna Be, Who You’re Gonna Be, How You Are Going To Do It. Just Decide. And From That Point, The Universe Will Get Out Of Your Way.

You’ll Never Achieve 100 Percent If 99 Percent Is Okay.

I've Always Been A Jokester. The Things I Got In Trouble For, When I Was Little, Was Always About Making A Joke Or Setting Up A Prank Or Being Silly When I Should Be Paying Attention.

We Spend Money That We Do Not Have, On Things We Do Not Need, To Impress People Who Do Not Care.

I've Always Considered Myself To Be Just Average Talent And What I Have Is A Ridiculous Insane Obsessiveness For Practice And Preparation.

A Sad Thing In Life Is That Sometimes You Meet Someone Who Means A Lot To You, Only To Find Out In The End It Was Never Bound To Be, And You Just Have To Let Go.

Coming From Sitcom Television And Coming From Music You Burn Up Every Single Second. You Don't Leave Anything There. You Burn It Up And You Pass Out When You Walk Off Stage, So I Took That Concept Into Acting.

You Play A Part In Every Aspect Of Your Life Going The Way You Want Or Not Going The Way That You Want. It Has Very Little To Do With Other People.

Even Hitler Didn't Wake Up Going, 'let Me Do The Most Evil Thing I Can Do Today.' I Think He Woke Up In The Morning And Using A Twisted, Backwards Logic, He Set Out To Do What He Thought Was 'good.'

It Feels Like God Visits Everywhere Else, But Lives In Africa.

You Can't Win Enough, You Can't Have Enough Money, You Can't Succeed Enough. There Is Not Enough.

Summer, Summer, Summertime Time To Sit Back And Unwind.

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