Elizabeth Day

If you go into something expecting to be rubbish and expecting everyone else to be equally bad, there is less space for your pride to be dented. In a group of people who are actively seeking not to succeed, humiliation becomes obsolete.

When you’re auditioning, your first year of auditioning out in the real world, you’re collecting data. Don’t ever go on an audition to get the job, go on the audition to find out how you best do auditions.

we expect too much of ourselves, we are destined to feel like failures.

If we feel ashamed of something that has gone wrong, or defined negatively by a mistake we have made, the antidote is openness. It’s always a surprise to discover how many other people have felt the same way.

And so it’s true to say, I think, that the expression of one’s vulnerability is the ultimate show of strength. Being brave enough to share your wounds is an act of compassion that makes others feel less alone.

We’ve been told that success is to be known by others, when in truth the most meaningful success is to know ourselves.