Quotes About Self

The only opinion that really affects me is my own opinion of myself because I determine the way I am, not anyone else.

I've been allowed to develop my own character, which I'm still working on.

When you are developing a character you have to bring so much of yourself to the role.

I always kept a diary - not a diary like, 'Dear Diary, we got up at 5 A.M., and I wore the weird hair again and that white dress! Hi-yeee!' I'd just write.

I never had any desire to defend myself, and never did I seriously think about it.

I'm not a celebrity, I'm a person, and when fans call me Diego, it's easier to remember that I'm no better than anyone else.

If it doesn't start with you, it dies with you.

I feel like I'm a boy, but I don't feel like I should've been born with different parts of my body or anything like that. I feel like it's just all in how I dress and how I talk and how I look and feel, and that makes me happy.

As an artist, you keep learning. You draw out different parts of you.

It's not a secret that I'm, like, 12 different people rolled into one. Like a lot of people are.

You can lose who you are so easily when you're being so many things to so many different people.

It's not just putting on a little bit of makeup and putting on a dress. Some drag queens duct tape their heads, some drag queens are bound and strapped and pulled in every which direction. To be in drag is no small endeavor.

To be honest, I don't try to speak and target who my 'audience' is. I just do my thing.

I think the way you present yourself to the world, whatever kind of task you're tackling, is really important.

Some scholars argue that although the brain might contain neural subsystems, or modules, specialized for tasks like recognizing faces and understanding language, it also contains a part that constitutes a person, a self: the chief executive of all the subsystems.

My mom told us that we should have good shoes, a good suit, and a watch, so I was running around at age 10 looking like a little old man. But somehow I grew to understand that a watch is a representation of myself, of my culture, taste, awareness and aesthetic.

I periodically realize every few years that the only person whose taste I really trust is me.

It's hard to run away from who you are, and when your taste is formed is a very important thing.

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.

Usually, I'm just pleasing myself and I have very similar tastes I think to an audience, what that core audience really likes.

I got a tattoo saying 'Made in England' above my foot to represent that, that I felt like a doll for so long.

A tattoo doesn't make you look like an individual.

My tattoos have become a part of me. When I look in the mirror, I just see my face.

I just like tattoos.