Jimmy O. Yang Quotes

Confidence was never in short supply in my case. If anything, I think I overshot the mark with confidence way too early in my career, and gradually, it's about just getting more humble and wanting to sit down more.

There comes a time in every man's life when he realises he will never be James Bond.

It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.

I just don't take myself as seriously anymore. But as a result of that, I am taking myself more seriously. My ego has gone on holiday, and it can't get a flight back home.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

There's no blueprint for where I should be. I see myself as a young, good actor who still has a lot to learn. There's nobody at any point in their career who is the finished article.

I was taking myself very seriously when I was going through life changes. And I realized that I needed to laugh at myself, particularly at my mistakes.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

I had to let my ego go a long time ago.

We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.

I didn't read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I'm older. I read them all.

Nothing pleases me more than when somebody who was awe-inspired to be working with me realizes I'm just another schmuck that they're bored of hanging out with on a set. I love that moment. I like it when that persistent illusion is smashed.

A lot of people don't realize it, but I've a lot less success than I've have had success.

I thought I was so much smarter than everybody. And I'm not.

I am simply not such a slave to my vanity, and I don't want to be, because as you get older you really have to start accepting the inevitable.

When I did A Soldier's Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!

When you're young you believe it when people tell you how good you are. And that's the danger, you inhale. Everyone will tell you you're a genius, which you are not, and if you understand that, you win.

It's what you learn after you know it all, that counts.

You think you can do anything, and then you slowly learn how wrong you are.

I'm 47 years old, and I have to accept the fact that I'm probably not going to set the world on fire... If I was going to do that, I would have done it by now.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

I don't rise to the occasion when there's no occasion.

If I had planned to score double and triple hundreds, I would probably not have made them ever.

It's funny, I really feel like I've learned a lot in my career but I still feel like a child. Like, an 11-year-old? I think it will be like that all my life, actually.

If you look at who you were a year ago and aren't somewhat embarrassed, you're not growing as a person.