It's what you practice in private that you will be rewarded for in public.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
The more you fail in private, the less you will fail in public.
There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts.
I've never stopped since the day I came off 'X Factor' to look in the mirror and say 'you did it.' It's too much for my tiny little brain to work out.
Private victories precede public victories.
I hadn't even dreamed of getting another Academy Award, and there I was unhappy in my private life and miserable, I remember Odets drove me three times around the Biltmore, where the Oscars were given out, because I was so full of tears.
A record like 'Price of Fame' - when you do get this success, how do you treat it, or how do you let it treat you? How does it affect your family and friends and the people around you? ... And I don't mind telling people what I've been through when it comes to the pressure I put on myself of wanting to be the best and the greatest.
A career is born in public - talent in privacy.
When a private entity does not produce the desired results, it is (certain body parts excepted) done away with. But a public entity gets bigger.
in a sense much great literature is subversive, since its very existence implies that what matters is art, imagination, and truth. In what we call the real world, on the other hand, what usually counts is money, power, and public success.
External success has to do with people who may see me as a model, or an example, or a representative. As much as I may dislike or want to reject that responsibility, this is something that comes with public success. It's important to give others a sense of hope that it is possible and you can come from really different places in the world and find your own place in the world that's unique for yourself.
My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye.
Too many people believe that one big, public success will solve their self-confidence problems forever. That only happens in the movies. In real life, the opposite strategy is what works. Call it the small victo-ries approach. In time you will discover that all failing really does teach you something you needed to know- so you can regroup and stretch again, with ever more...nerve.
When we have public success we also have private struggles.
Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.
If you're in the movie or in television, your failures are very public, and so are your successes. You weigh them up against each other, really.
