Quotes About Self

I think for me to find that project is going to be something that I'm going to have to develop for myself.

When I'm offered a role, I look at what I think I can do with it. I look to see if I can project myself into it.

Male directors always project their own desire of women - how they want a woman to dress, to do her hair. With a woman director, it's more a projection of herself.

I've been lucky. The projects I've gotten to work on are projects I'd want to watch myself. That's what I try to shoot for.

I love the idea that I have the power to look for the projects I can put myself into, but I'm still at that level of just being happy to have a job.

I've made a promise to myself to be a 100% healthy person if nothing else.

Donald Trump may not speak explicitly of 'who we are,' but with his promise to make America great again, he engages in his own kind of identity politics, signaling that the nation has lost its sense of self. That gets to people.

As I get older and unavoidably change a bit living as a celebrity, I always promise myself not to change.

Obama was 200 percent advertising. I promote myself to sell my brands. Because now I am a kind of celeb. I am in a different world than the fashion industry. I am with Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Madonna. I build me as a celebrity.

I don't pronounce all my words exactly how they do on the BBC. I am who I am.

Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.

When the machine of a human being is turned on, it seems to produce a protagonist, just as a television produces an image.

I think women have every right to feel like they're the protagonists in their own stories.

My thing is whether my film is small, I am still playing the protagonist.

I've done well, I've been disappointed, and I think it all goes back to you. Of course the labels are going to be the labels. It's the music business. You are a business. That's what they do. So you've got to protect yourself.

Clothing started as an armor for me. It was one of the ways that I protected myself from the world. It evolved into a form of creative expression.

I am definitely not under British protection. I have to protect myself. I am not M.I.6. I am not C.I.A. I am not anything.

We are, each one of us, not just defined by the arrangement of protein molecules in our cells, but also by the things we call our own.

I've come a different path to some and, while I respect everyone else's 100 per cent, I'm proud of mine. I'm proud of where I've come from and where I am trying to get to.

I'm proud of my sexuality. I embrace it. It's just another part of me.

The fact is, I'm gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn't be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud.

I'm so proud of myself.

I made my history. I don't have to prove anything.

The only person I've got to prove to is myself.