Alana Stewart Quotes

You've got to demand the truth from yourself.

I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn't even think about it.

One of the key elements is the ability to be honest with yourself.

I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.

I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be.

The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.

A nice person is a 'yes' person, whereas a good person is a person who accepts their responsibility in things and moves forward and tries to constantly evolve and isn't afraid to say no or challenge someone or be honest or truthful.

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself

You get to a point where you get tired of being stupid and selfish and not being honest with yourself.

In order for us to appreciate this world, we have to be a bit more honest, and I hope I do that.

I don't expect anyone to believe I will change, but I'm working on it.

I try to be honest with myself.

In the future, when something comes up, you tell exactly how it happened but write down for yourself the way you think it should have happened. Tell the truth and write the story. Then you won't get mixed up. It was the best advice Francie every got.

For two extraordinary years I have been working on it - learning to write - but mostly learning how to tell the truth. At first it is quite impossible. You make yourself better than anybody, then worse than anybody, and when you finally come to see you are "like" everybody - that is the bitterest blow of all to the ego. But in the end it is only the truth, no matter how ugly or shameful, that is right, that fits together, that makes real people, and strangely enough - beauty.

You learn how to do good work by being honest with yourself.

Sincerity must be bought at a price: the humility to recognize our innumerable errors, and fidelity in tirelessly setting them right.

There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.

Do I make mistakes? Yeah.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake.

The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.

I have faced up to what I am.