Bernie Siegel Quotes

people in great trouble don't change to other people. They only change to themselves.

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

My methods produce lasting behavioral change without unpleasant consequences, because the change does not come from an effort of will. It comes from examining your deep-rooted beliefs of who you are and how the world functions. As you examine these beliefs and make changes in them, you literally become a different person.

I do think that you can dress yourself out of a problem. The way that a haircut and a new pair of pants can make you feel is better than any therapist, because when you look in the mirror, you see a different person - you are a different person. It's superficial change that can lead to real change.

Habits change into character.

As an actor, sometimes you feel a pressure to change yourself from time to time.

I'm a different athlete, I'm a different person.

I look for roles that allow me to immerse in different worlds, immerse in worlds that are different from mine. Then, when you finish a film, you're a different person. I look for that. I look to be impacted, to be transformed, changed by my roles. That's why I do this.

I'm a totally different person in training.

The average personality re-shapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul-desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change.

I always like seeing people transforming themselves, in whatever way that might be, and a different accent is part of that.

What does it take to change the essence of a man?

By acting as you wish yourself to be, in due course you will become as you act.

You start Saul, and end up Paul,' my grandfather had often said. 'When you're a youngun, you Saul, but let life whup your head a bit and you starts to trying to be Paul - though you still Sauls around on the side.

If we want to change what people think of us, then we have got to change.

To change what you get you must change who you are.

Transformational acting was the reason why I became an actor in the first place. Your hair and make-up and the costume are the tools that you have, and it makes you feel like that person. When you look in the mirror, you don't feel like yourself, and it changes the way you move. I love that stuff.

You can't expect a man to change in one day by watching a film, right?

Seeing, feeling, thinking, believing - these are the stages of how we change our style on the outside and our self-image on the inside.

To be what you want to be, you must give up being what you are.

Personality is less a finished product than a transitive process. While it has some stable features, it is at the same time continually undergoing change.

To play a role where you get to reveal intellectual change is wonderful.

I've learned through my own experiences that working toward an objective in your life can change who you are.

You have to actually believe in your capacity to change for habits to permanently change.

Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life.