Michael Aspel Quotes

I personally have a philosophy around authenticity and vulnerability.

I think you have to be yourself, and you have to be real and you have to admit what you don't know, and talk about what you do know, and talk about what you don't know as long as you say you don't know it.

I had no idea who I was when I started. I was frightened to death and had no natural performing skills.

I don't really know any other way than to be vulnerable or just be myself.

I'm very open with my life, and I don't regret it because it's what got me here.

I love 'I'm British But...' It's such a sweet, innocent, open-hearted film, and it has the sort of openness that I still aspire to with everything I do. It wears its heart, head, everything on its sleeve.

It took awhile for me to get used to speaking candidly about my own life. I got into it, and it turned out to be a wonderful experience.

I've never met anyone that is their image.

I think the day that I become comfortable doing interviews and going on talk shows is the day that I don't know what it is to be a human being anymore.

I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.

I miss improv. I hate it in a way - watching it, doing it - but only because it's so challenging and nerve wracking. Improv is the only belief system I've ever experienced that directly works on how to be. Just how to be.

You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.

I'm putting myself out there in a way I don't know if I ever have before.

Sometimes I feel like I used to be a person that liked to express himself a lot and put my feelings out there.

It's hard to talk about yourself onstage and be sincere about it.

It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself.

You can't respect yourself if you're afraid to be who you are.

I've learned that maybe sometimes it's better to show people who you are and what you are thinking about. That way, you can be more relaxed with yourself.

I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.

Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.

Earlier on in my career I felt that I had to hide behind a lot of different masks, and showboat ways of performing. Now, that's a lie. The less I have to hide, the less I have to act.

When I was younger, I was afraid to be myself.

I try to find what is closest to me in the character. There's many sides to personality, but it's a matter of, do you entertain those specific areas of your personality, or are you afraid to entertain them?

The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked... that's the moment you may be starting to get it right.

I feel like my secret magic trick that separates me from a lot of my peers is the bravery to be vulnerable and truthful and honest.