Jessie Mueller Quotes

Some people kind of get lost in what everyone else is doing and not pay attention to themselves, and I think I'm one where I pay attention to myself and can set the example for the people coming up.

I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would do it and not the way anyone else would do it. If you're a strong enough writer, then that voice is going to come out all the time, and I can't stop it from coming out, no matter what I do.

I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me.

It's important to have your own voice.

I influence myself, because I always try to be different and stay in my own lane.

I'm not going to see anybody else in the mirror. That's how I live, day by day. When I look in the mirror, it's up to me to accomplish everything I want out of life.

Certain people like the way I make films, and others do not. I've come to terms with the fact that there's no other way I can make films. If I tried to do it in a different way, it would never work.

I've learnt that I've had the best results from just trying to be me, trying to make a movie or TV show I want to see or write a script I want to read, and that's really all I can offer - being authentic.

You're the only one who's closing your eyes at night. There's no one else who can do it for you.

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

I was inspired by lots of people, certainly in acting and in writing and stuff, but I never wanted to be somebody else.

The divine is God's concern; the human, man's. My concern is neither the divine nor the human, not the true, good, just, free, etc., but solely what is 'mine,' and it is not a general one, but is - 'unique,' as I am unique. Nothing is more to me than myself!

I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.

More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That boss is the man - he - himself.

I am responsible for me. I can kind of take care of what I need to do and should do what I like to do.

Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work.

I know that no one can really stop me but myself and that really no one can help me but myself.

I learned early in my writing career that if I try to tailor a song for someone else, I'm usually off base. They're usually looking for something from you with your character.

Don't try to be like me. Try to be like yourself. Try to be very good at being yourself.

I'm not the new anything; I'm just Agyness.

Everybody is different. Everybody has different styles. Just do it the best way you know how.

I think it's important to have your own individual style and sense of self. It's kind of what I do.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

Do everything yourself.

You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.