Quotes About Self

There are selves too big for one person to contain. You cannot call them selfish. There is nothing -ish about such selves. They are the self, as it were, itself.

If you want to be happy you need to think of yourself as a container of energy. There is a universal energy, yes of course, it embraces us. When you appreciate this, life becomes a lot more exciting. You don't live life, life lives you.

There's no real test of how Asian you need to be to be able to own your Asianness, and it's always going to be an area of contention.

My continent knows more about me than I do myself.

There are times when your ego has to contract.

I don't necessarily view myself as a big - I view myself just as a player, someone who can go out there and contribute to the team from any position.

The only thing I can control is myself. I can't control what anyone thinks about me, I can't control circumstance, I can't control the things that God controls.

I have ended up with quite a conventional marriage and family. But I still hold on to my younger self who didn't know if that's what I wanted to do or not.

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting.

Part of what makes your performances more convincing is that your own image isn't getting in the way. And the more you can keep it like that, the better for your work and your state of mind.

I never saw myself as being a cop on TV. I come from theatre, and I always go back every couple of years.

Copying is a form of self-validation.

I really had to develop a core. I had to figure out, at my core as a writer, what did I value? What was I about? And I had to love it and take pleasure in it.

Yes, I would love to step outside the costume drama category and play a young urbanite, something closer to who I am.

I like a character, not a costume - the idea of putting on clothes and you become someone else.

People always call me 'champ' all the time everywhere I go. I just tell them to call me 'Shawn.' There's countless champs, but only one Shawn Porter.

Country music is who I really, really am deeply.

I've never graced the cover of a fashion magazine.

I'm a cowboy and an Indian.

I love my cracked eyes.

I think the person creates the artist. And I think when you get lost within your person, your artistry get lost, too. It's like in 'Birdman.' Because the artist inside you is attached to your soul. And when you're not attached to yourself anymore, the soul goes away. You can't let that happen.

Your own need to be shines out of any dream or creation you imagine.

I am still the place where creation does some work on itself.