Quotes About Self

The danger with playing a part that defines you is that it swallows up everything else.

There's an old adage of, 'This is what I do, it's not who I am.' There is a line that gets blurry at times because you sometimes become your work, or you sometimes put so much into your work that you can't separate from it. It swallows you up. It really happens during the season and it's a difficult line to manage.

I like to wear jeans, Converse and a sweater, so from the back I can sometimes look like a boy!

In Sweden, you're not supposed to think you are someone.

When I went to Sweden, I sort of found out who I was.

In one sense, every character you create will be yourself. You've never murdered, but your murderer's rage will be drawn from memories of your own extreme anger. Your love scenes will contain hints of your own past kisses and sweet moments.

I think in Mrs. C, I certainly played myself. A very compulsive, sweet person.

I'm not Sammi Sweetheart in my private life.

I swim for myself. I love it, I have fun, and just representing my country is the greatest honor I could ever have.

I love swimming, but swimming can't be my entire identity, my entire world.

I think a good book is one you can lose yourself in and find yourself in, and that's what I did with 'Swing Time.'

Calling yourself the 'Best Kept Secret' is a die on your own sword.

The Christ-symbol is of the greatest importance for psychology in so far as it is perhaps the most highly developed and differentiated symbol of the self, apart from the figure of the Buddha.

I think of myself as an actor first, not a sex symbol. Do I think I'm sexy? No, that's someone else's judgment, and I honestly don't think you can try to be sexy and really succeed.

I can choose to be a serious musician, but the sex symbol part is not up to me.

No matter what you think of him otherwise, there are no two ways about it - Narayana Murthy is inextricably linked to the modern Indian's sense of self. So also is Sachin Tendulkar. Every time he goes out to bat, he carries with him the dreams of a billion people. Like many sporting legends, he is an iconic symbol of our subliminal nationalism.

The name of my condition is Cartilage Hair Syndrome Hypoplasia, but you can just call me Billy.

I love Shillington not as one loves Capri or New York, because they are special, but as one loves one's own body and consciousness, because they are synonymous with being.

The person who seeks power is controlled by power. The person who seeks acceptance is controlled by the people he or she wants to please. We do not control ourselves. We are controlled by the lord of our life.

Life, basically, is a nightmare until you learn to control the dream.

Life is where you sleep and what you see when you wake up in the morning, and who you tell about your weird dream, and what you eat for breakfast and who you eat it with. Life isn't something that happens to you. It's something you make yourself, all the time.

I guess my question is: Is the new you the stranger? Or is the stranger the person you leave behind?" -Sherm

Life isn't something that happens to you. It's something you make yourself, all the time.

Sheila made it sound simple, like everyone had one real self. But what if I didn't? Or what if my real self was no good? I kept imagining Angelica's face, half like usual, half not working right. Sometimes I felt like that on the inside, like I knew how I wanted to be, but it didn't match up with how I really was.