You reach a point when you say to yourself, 'Do I want to keep doing this?' There are other things on my plate I want to do - I've been writing a play; I've been neglecting my standup.
When you're out of your own cultural context you have conversations with yourself that you just don't have at any other point in your life. When you're in a hotel room on the border between India and Nepal you can really discover things about yourself.
To shoot a conventional film means that you are always covering yourself. You are putting nets and, in a way, letting bad decisions take over.
I was trained as a neurologist, and then I went into the theater, and if you're brought up to think of yourself as a biological scientist of some sort, pretty well everything else seems frivolous by comparison.
I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productive, you have to constantly outdo yourself, you have to constantly outdo your neighbor - all of the stuff that creates an incredibly productive society, but also a very neurotic one.
Obviously, Nevada doesn't prohibit all forms of gambling, but you have to submit yourself to a very rigorous regulatory process to run a gambling operation in Nevada.
Never expect people to treat you any better than you treat yourself.
I know from experience that you should never give up on yourself or others, no matter what.
Positivity, confidence, and persistence are key in life, so never give up on yourself.
If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride - and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards.
Football, if I can say, is an everlasting new beginning. You always question yourself, but you have to be ready not just mentally but physically as well. You have to be fit and take care of your body.
Pictures bring you inside, whether you see yourself driving a new car or as a hapless prisoner who is being abused.
Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability.
When you celebrate a new idea, it immediately comes through the way you hold yourself and the clothes you wear.
The concept of bettering yourself at the disadvantage of others is out the door, and the new one is to help one another while helping yourself.
This knowledge that you might have to really reorganize and redefine yourself and build new skills is really important.
At the international level, one has to keep working hard and develop new skills. International cricket is all about improving yourself.
We can't make movies without scripts, and there's no cost to writing a script, so my advice to newcomers is do it yourself: Write your own script, shoot your shorts, edit your shorts.
The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them.
I think the ability to hit - some guys have it and some guys don't - but I think how dedicated you are to trying to get the most out of yourself, I think kind of determines how good you are and for how long. I was born with the ability to hit, but my work ethic has taken it to the next level.
