A wise man knows when to go 'head and back off so you gotta pick and choose your fights. I know how to pick and choose.
Also, with acting and dancing I portray a predetermined character and story for the most part, with music I have the creative freedom to create a song on a whim with whomever I choose and at whatever time I choose to do it. It's more liberating artistically and that's why I've stuck with it. It's a good balance to be able to portray a character and also be myself in avenues that I'm passionate about.
Of all the things you choose in life, you don't get to choose what your nightmares are. You don't pick them; they pick you.
I'm not in a position where I can pick and choose. It's the other way around. The studios pick and choose.
The norm of unconditional parental love, I think, depends on the fact that we don't pick and choose the traits of our children in the way that we pick and choose the features of a car we might order, or a consumer good.
I push to be in good films and good TV shows. I don't really pick and choose. I pick and choose what I will read for, and I've gotten to the point where I'm being offered stuff.
I don't pick and choose what LeBron should talk about any more than any talking heads who try to pick and choose.
I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
When you're creating a character out of nothing, you have to make all the guesses as to how they walk, how they talk, how they think. It was all there on the table for us to pick and choose for Murrow.
Life is very, very short, and you can choose to live it how you want. You can choose to dumb yourself down and not express yourself just so you can fit in, just so people won't dislike you.
Happiness is a choice. You grieve, you stomp your feet, you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.
I don't pick my roles based on what clothes I have to wear. I pick roles because of the character I have to portray, and the public have enjoyed seeing me in those roles.
I've learned that success comes in a very prickly package. Whether you choose to accept it or not is up to you. It's what you choose to do with it, the people you choose to surround yourself with. Always choose people that are better than you. Always choose people that challenge you and are smarter than you. Always be the student. Once you find yourself to be the teacher, you've lost it.
You can't make yourself feel positive, but you can choose how to act, and if you choose right, it builds your confidence
I watch people, friends of mine, and see how they portray themselves online and I find interesting that it's kind of a hyper-real version of yourself, how you'd like to be seen, in a way.
Don’t portray yourself as who you want to be. Portray yourself as who you are.