Quotes About Self

If you have parents who can't show you love, a kid can grow up to look arrogant. Because they need to create a fake self. Or they think they're more powerful than they really are.

I'm not too good at being fake or being somebody else.

I can't be manic without it feeling false to me.

Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.

False confidence is false confidence.

Sentimentality is a false sense of self.

Acting has always been a way for me to express the emotions I had buried. If I hadn't acted, I would have gone insane. In my acting class, I could let out my real tears and everyone thought it was the character. But no, it was me.

The podcast 'Note to Self' is 'the tech show about being human'. Human notions of privacy have changed.

I guess technically I am a female chef, but I don't really think of myself as such.

Everybody has many people inside of them; I think we tend to present the one we feel is most appropriate at first, in order to gain acceptance or achieve what we want. It gets really interesting when this technique fails, and other levels are revealed.

Meisner technique was different than anything I'd ever experienced. It's a really great way to be accountable to your craft and to yourself, but also it takes that kind of focus and dedication to learn anything.

A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.

I believe that if I wasn't born in this technological and 'social media' era, I would have found another way to express myself.

My story is really an affirmation of my strength and my luck. To live with a great artist like Ted Hughes or Mick Jagger is a very, very destructive role for a woman trying to be herself. In fact, it can't be done.

As a white teen, I was very drawn to hip-hop culture, almost to the point of disappearing in it - there was a sense of having no sense of authenticity except this one that wasn't mine.

All that stuff - 'teen idol' - that wasn't me.

I think the teenage sides of myself have informed my adult self.

I can't pretend to be a teenager, but I feel like I never really stopped being a teenager.

In certain ways, I'm not very different than I was when I was a teenager.

As a teenager I was severely, cripplingly dramatic and in search of self.

I like stand-up. I've done it since I was a teenager, so it's kind of my first job and first kind of creative way to express myself.

I can't believe that person on the television is really me.

The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.

Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.