Quotes About Self

Everyone is a fuckin' Napoleon.

Only what is within you is near; all else is far. And this within: so packed and pressured, barely contained, unsayable.

The difficulty, as I saw it, was that she was trying to manage a public self whereas she was by nature a miniaturist who excelled at drawing into her field of activity nuances, intimations, unspoken thought, the most tenuous of personal statements. She was better at the glancing criticism than at spontaneous magnanimity

no man is free of his own history.

I know who I am until somebody questions it, and then I have to start all over again. It's exhausting.

I'm not sure I can say there is a clean line between me as an individual and me as a lawyer.

People can only love you as much as they love themselves.

To have your rights disregarded is to become invisible, not to count, so the sense of self is eroded.

If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic.

Especially in the Western world, so much of our cultural ideas about grieving is about us, and I think it's important to get beyond that sometimes.

You hide your instinctive self and instead create a social self with lies. That's how people are able to get along with each other. What's scary is when you strip all the lies away to get at the essential you. What if it's pure evil? You don't want to face that. So lies aren't all bad - we need them to live.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

At this point, I just do whatever... I want, to my detriment.

I'm very moody, so I dress for whatever mood I'm in. Sometimes I want to be a little more boyish and flowy and comfortable. Sometimes I want to feel a little sexier and more composed.

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.

Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like a plant.

The things I do, I do for me, not for no publicity stunt or cameras or whatever.

I am what I am. Whatever it was that made me what I am, I thought I should stay around and be that.

I have no control whatsoever on how people perceive me from the Right or the Left. All I have control over is who I say I am.

You have to find balance. Whenever I start feeling stressed or not feeling myself, it's about balance, and it means I need to find it again.

But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.

Whenever you're in any acting role you are mortgaging your own character.

Being myself is what got me to where I am.

Where id was, there ego shall be.