Quotes About Self

When I was a teenager I loved acting, but I really just loved it for myself. I didn't like the fact that anyone else saw the work I was doing

Art can be close to the bone, but we are not our work. Try not to identify your core ego with your art.

I did all the dialect work, all my character work completely by myself.

I never appear in any of your work, come to think of it, Calvin [Trillin]. And I look.

Recently some work I made could be seen as feminist art or work that relates to the body. That's just what I'm feeling - like it needs to be done.

What you can become is the miracle you were born to be through the work that you do.

I believe that I am some sort of fiction writer and I'm using myself in my work because I'm the person I'm most convenient to use!

I want an identity outside of my work.

It's a good time for me to pursue acting, I suppose since I'm enjoying having another medium in which to express myself. I've been getting a great response to my work.

I don't necessarily love all the collaborations that I've done; the more I work with other people, the more I realize that I want to work with myself.

My work generally tends to be an all-out, 360-degree subversive take on everything, most of all my own notion of myself as a son, father, husband, human being and male in this culture.

A man's work is rather the needful supplement to himself than the outcome of it.

I built websites for myself. I didn't want to work for anyone else. I came from a science background, so I approached things fairly analytically.

I regard myself as someone who is retired but who occasionally goes out to work. In fact, I'm offered so much good stuff that it's not so occasional.

At home, be grateful. At work, be appreciative. Gratitude is a gift we give ourselves. Appreciation is a gift we give to others.

I produce but I'm producing work that I can be in.

Work is an extension of personality. It is achievement. It is one of the ways in which a person defines himself, measures his worth, and his humanity.

The foibles of my body are pretty much out there in the work I do.

I don't think balance is something you get from someone else; it's something women have to find from within. For me, finding balance is still a work in progress.

We're in an era where you learn about techniques, but you don't experience anything crucial in yourself about a piece of work from an artist that you love.

Work with your mind; don't let your mind work over you.

We are more than the work we perform. In fact, I'd say that our work is a mere representation of who we are underneath.

You are a work of art.

The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His work means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.