Quotes About Self

We don't even know what our desire is. We ask other people to tell us our desires. We would like our desires to come from our deepest selves, our personal depths - but if it did, it would not be desire. Desire is always for something we feel we lack.

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can't tell you how frustrating it was that they didn't get that. No joke - I'd leave meetings crying all the time.

My ears sort of turn off when someone tells me that what my heart is saying isn't a good idea.

Modern science tells us that the conscious self arises from a purely physical brain. We do not have immaterial souls.

I was a latchkey kid. Every afternoon, I would walk home from school, let myself in, make myself a banana buttie, and watch telly until Mum came home.

I still have a temper, I suppose.

No, I don't have a problem with my temper.

I'm a really goofy person most of the time, and I have to sometimes temper my hyper self on set.

I feel like rap fit me better. I could hoop. I could have went and did that, but this is my lifestyle, my temperament, my mentality.

We are the creature of language, and through language we affirm ourselves, we find out about the world, including ourselves, through words, and we share with one another through language.

Your real self - the 'I am I' - is master of this land, the ruler of this empire. You rightfully have power and dominion over it, all its inhabitants, and all contained in its realm.

Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.

All power is from within and therefore under our control

You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be.

When you're living with a mob of other people, it's hard not to fall into thinking like as they do, and then you ain't YOU no more.

When I speak, I speaks.

What am I to myself that must be remembered, insisted upon so often?

Who are you?' 'They call me Good-Looking Joe,' the stranger replied. 'You gave yourself that name, right?' Joe laughed. 'Only the Joe part.

If you're an actor, always be true to your character. If you are not an actor, have character and always be true to yourself.

kind of person who could achieve anything if only he wasn't dysfunctional enough not to.

I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That's the actor's craft - using yourself to create a character.

Wenn das Leben eine Illusion ist, dann bin ich es nicht weniger, und somit ist die Illusion für mich Wirklichkeit.

The only place people find fulfillment is within themselves. And too often, that's the last place they look.

An Infinite personality is an infinite impossibility