Quotes About Self

There isn't anything that pays you as much money as acting while you are deciding what the hell you're going to do with yourself.

British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage.

A huge portion of our lives involves the surrender of our freedom and personal autonomy. It is time in which we are directed by the needs and whims of others, and denied the right to make our own choices.

No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything.

Growing up, I was confused about my identity: I felt like I wasn't black enough to be black, but not white enough to be white.

I guess I don't like the fact that my life is becoming less and less my own - the prevailing attitude that you have an obligation to deliver yourself to the public. Actually, you're delivered to the public whether you like it or not. I guess if you don't like it, you should stop doing what provokes it. In my case, that's acting.

My kids paid the price for my career. We can say it's for our family, but it almost never is. It's about us. It's just some of us can pretend better than others.

What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

I pride myself on being Japanese American.

There's only one prima donna in my pictures, and that's me!

Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.

Writing is my primary way of expressing myself.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who we are' operate on precisely the same principles that we do.

Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.

Forgiveness is for yourself because it frees you. It lets you out of that prison you put yourself in.

Language controls how you are perceived by others, and in that sense, it is a prison.

Many of us are in are in our own prisons that aren't made of iron bars.

If you are everywhere, then you've sacrificed the very thing that you are complaining about, which is your own privacy.

There is no privacy in our culture anymore, so I have to try and carve that out for myself, but I'm OK with it.

I think privacy is important, and it's important you don't bore people with your own boring self.

I wouldn't like to be that famous, I value my privacy. Mind you, Miss Piggy enjoys every moment of it. If it were not for me, she would spend all her time in the limelight.