Quotes About Self

Liberation does not come from outside.

I'm not a library.

I am who I am: I have my life experiences and my professional experiences.

Nobody likes being told who or what they are.

You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.

We don't put limits on ourselves.

My nature is to be linear, and when I'm not, I feel really proud of myself.

I don't feel like myself without the red lip. I feel like I'm taking a risk or something without it.

I'm not big on lip color, but I like to have a little something.

When I was an athlete I never listened to music because I was constantly so engaged with my own self and body.

An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening.

I literally just do whatever I want to do.

Ever since I was a little girl I always wanted to be so perfect.

As an actor, I am always in one character or the other and get very little time to be Nana Patekar. So whenever I can, I love to be alone and by myself. That way, I get time to think and introspect.

Most of my time is in front of the camera, so the little time that I get is mine alone.

We live with our archetypes, but can we live in them?

I have a liver disease where my autoimmune system is fighting against itself.

You have to have a name when you're young, I went through loads.

Loads of people call me Bax. In my family I'm often called Hel, which isn't as nice.

I don't want to be the same all the time and changing my hair is loads of fun.

We really wanted to be rock 'n' roll, so we became rock 'n' roll, and really good at it, but you pick up loads of layers and you completely forget who you are and what you are.

I always thought I needed the support of someone in a long-term relationship to make me whole.

I am not going to the House of Lords. Never. That's not who I am. That's not where I am.

I don't want to lose myself for someone else.