William Banting Quotes

I know the one time I tried therapy, I did after a month or two, and I only lasted a few months, because I started to worry about being entertaining. I kept driving there once a week for an hour and I'm thinking 'What am I going to talk about today?'

It didn't take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start.

For a very long time, I wasn't thought of as anyone with any credibility in the film world. Everybody is tramping through the swamp every day in this business. 'I'm worth it, I'm credible - believe me, give me a shot!' That's the way I feel on a consistent basis.

I had no idea what it took to be an actor. Then all of a sudden I found myself cast in a TV drama. The director was very harsh with me. One time, he told me this would be my first and last acting job. I seriously thought that acting was not the right career for me.

There's a gap between people knowing what I do and really believing that I still do that - and wondering what it is I really do.

There was one time I wrestled two boys and I beat them both! They weighed a lot less than I did and I think they didn't want to hurt a girl, so I don't know if I really won - I'd like to think I did.

I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.

It took a long time for me to accept I was an actor, a professional actor, and that, actually, I make a living out of this.

I will not promote other people's songs big time. I will just mention that I produced the song to get the credit I think I deserve.

It used to be that I was always paranoid or a loser or something so there's usually something that you seem to associate yourself with at one time or another.

Really, I have no idea how I'm perceived in the industry.

It's so important to be your own biggest fan, even if you have to constantly convince people, including yourself, that you're worthy of their time and energy and ears.

And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something for you, why something is ugly, demand proofs from it, test it, and you will find it perhaps bewildered and embarrassed, perhaps also protesting. But don't give in, insist on arguments, and act in this way, attentive and persistent, every single time, and the day will come when, instead of being a destroyer, it will become one of your best workers-perhaps the most intelligent of all the ones that are building your life.

It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant.

Lord, when I feel that what I'm doing is insignificant and unimportant, help me to remember that everything I do is significant and important in your eyes, because you love me and you put me here, and no one else can do what I am doing in exactly the way I do it.

People wonder whether I got my presenting job as a result of my own abilities or because of Gordon, which is a little unfair.

I probably should be thinking of better ideas on how to promote myself, but I don't really spend a lot of time doing it. I really don't know how to promote effectively.

There are days when I'll wake up and think, oh, I've really been something. You know, it won't be the same without me. And then there are days when I wake up and I say, 'Don't kid yourself. Your contribution was minimal. You changed very little. Everything you hated prospered'.

The neurotic believes that life has meaning, but that his life hasn't.

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves.

You could write the entire history of science in the last 50 years in terms of papers rejected by Science or Nature.

The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.

I still can't understand why anyone cares about what I do or what I say.

When we love something it is of value to us, and when something is of value to us we spend time with it, time enjoying it and time taking care of it.