Quotes About Self

As long as I can wear a wig I can be any character, and in real life I can be myself.

My hair journey has been lots of fun. I have always loved wigs and pieces, so I am never tied down to one style.

I prefer to be gender fluid or non-gendered and I dress in drag almost every day of my life even if I'm not in my full Jinkx Monsoon persona - I'm the kind of person who does not dress like my assigned gender and I wear makeup every day and sometimes wear wigs as a boy.

Actually, in the wild, we'd be the only person that we wouldn't recognize, if you think about it.

I'm not the same person as when I was 15 and I might not be the same person in ten years.

We can all tend to get caught up in the complications of life that we create; we live life for other people. It's a harrowing moment when you're confronted with an end, and you have to make the choice to live your life for you.

Psychologists and economists love to talk about the notion of two selves: present self and future self. It's a nice way to explain the tendency to have one preference about the future, but a very different preference when the future becomes the present.

I sing in full voice in the car and have a tendency to harmonize badly.

People have a tendency - you let your ego get in the way of the big moments.

I've made my most horrible inhuman tendencies work for me.

Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

I lived in Hollywood long enough to learn to play tennis and become a star, but I never felt it was my home. I was never looking for a home, as a matter of fact.

Tennis is great, but it doesn't necessarily define me.

We all know how to play tennis. We all know how to hit the ball. It's more just about those details - managing all those early rounds and just managing yourself to make sure you're ready for whatever is coming up next.

In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you are and what you become and how you perceive yourself, and it is laden with contradictions, with tension, with anger, with love, with loathing, with angst.

I find it really liberating to be in a place where I am a foreigner in every way. I've lived with this all my life - this divide, this bifurcation. And in Italy, I don't feel it. There's none of that tension, only the expectation I place on myself to speak the language well. I find it relaxing. Something drops away, and I observe.

Having to stake out your identity and have people question whether or not you're being yourself was a tension that I could relate to.

The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else.

I'm not even sure I want to use the term 'coming out.'

I felt like I needed to come to terms with the decision I'd made to let go of my family. What do you do when you want to be loyal to your family but you feel that loyalty to them is in conflict somehow with loyalty to yourself?

You have to believe in yourself. You have to go out there and love what you are and who you know you are in terms of your craft.

Acting is just a part of my life, and I like to lead life on my terms.

There's a certain amount of self-aggrandising with actors, and I'm terribly shy of that.

I was terrified of growing up to become the anti-me, maturing into a woman whom I would not recognise and who wouldn't recognise her younger self.