Quotes About Self

I had a desire to prove to myself that I was actually in control - that I wasn't a puppet.

I wasn't very good as a puppet. A lot of times in a movie, you need a really good puppeteer: you're sort of a puppet, and you're doing what you can. But I always, from the beginning, was kind of making up my own stuff from stand-up and sort of directing myself, so I wasn't very good in movies where I didn't have control.

I'm like Madonna: I'm Ming-Na. Just my first and middle name. That's it. Pure and simple.

Being pure in my voice has always served me the best. Anytime I've tried to hide my light under a bushel, it's never done me any good.

I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child.

Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.

I can't tell you what your purpose is, that's got to come from you.

If I'm a phenomenon, it makes me feel like I have no purpose.

For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.

Pursuing fame is the ultimate in people-pleasing and the ultimate betrayal of self.

For me, music is just one road. I dont have a specific pursuit; generally. I just try to be more aware of myself.

I never thought I'd be using this phrase, but the pursuit of happiness - that's my right.

My little self-analysis is that consumer technology is the closest thing we have to magic. You push a button and something happens at your command. The things that get me fired up the most have always been the things that seem the most magical.

I'm in competition only with myself, and I always want to push the envelope.

I still find it hard to push my own limits. I know where my limits are and that I always have to push myself.

I get scared as crap to perform but I push myself to do it. I don't know what I would be doing without it.

I guess I just like to challenge myself and push myself harder to do things that I don't think I can, to do things that other people do not think I can. It pushes me. I push my own personal limits.

That's what I'm always searching for - finding the balance between not caring so much to where I put all this pressure on myself. But still caring enough to where it pushes me to work exactly how I've been working so far.

Here I am just trying to fund myself to play a sport, but the greater picture is that I'm a female athlete really pushing the envelope for women in sports.

I know that I'm not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don't know how not to.

You've got to put in the work. And you've got to play with confidence. You've got to believe in yourself.

I never really set any time goals. I think that puts a limit on yourself.

No one puts higher expectations on themselves than I do.

All the bad press I was getting puts you on a downer, so really, you come to a stage where you start hating yourself, in a way, because you're not in control.