Quotes About Self

You can't please everybody. All you can do is please yourself.

My scope on what's good is if I like it. The first person I have to please is myself.

I think about the audience in the sense that I serve as my own audience. I have to please myself the way, if I saw the movie in a theater, I would be pleased. Do I think about catering to an audience? No.

I have to please me, personal foremost, I have to do work that I find interesting, that pleases me, by and large.

It just seemed hedonistic when I first started acting. It was a pleasurable thing. But as I look back on it now, I understand that it was a journey of the self for me.

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

I confess that I listen to my own music for my own pleasure.

Pleasures flit by - they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others.

You can only be you, and there are plenty of people out there who wouldn't have you be any other way.

I always try to find some part of a character that exists in me and plug that in.

I can hardly find the words to describe the peace I felt when I was acting. My dysfunctional self could actually plug in to another self, not my own, and it felt so good.

I can hardly find the words to describe the peace I felt when I was acting. My dysfunctional self could actually plug in to another self, not my own, and it felt so good. It was the first time that I existed inside a fully-functioning self - one that I controlled, that I steered, that I gave life to.

No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?

I want the poem to be an experience - for both the listener and for myself.

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.

All that I am is me. So I'm not really a poet or a writer or an actor or an activist; I'm me, and these are things that I do.

Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.

One of the things women poets have been engaged in - among the other things they've been doing - is revising parts of the poetic self. Re-examining notions of the authority within the poem, and of the poem.

Human beings, from their own point of view, are very different than what people see.

I like anything with my face on it, just from an aesthetic point of view.

You have to be responsible to yourself... but that doesn't mean you can't have a point of view about something.

I know one thing for sure that Salman Khan has crazy pointers about everybody and he has a very different point of view about things. He would think from every angle and I am always scared of those people who would control my mental balance and just make me doubt myself.