Quotes About Self

As a football player, you must have a big ego to respect yourself. So if you are a good player, you must say that you are good. You need to have the confidence.

It's a career that's enticing because you go on stage, for example, and people clap. You get that affirmation, but you can't go into acting for that because it's really your own self-belief that's going to get you through.

I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.

I think cancer - I'm not an expert or a doctor - but I think cancer is the result of undigested dreams and forcing yourself to do something that is not distinctively you.

I think if a character appeals to you, there are certain parts of yourself will come to the fore and other parts that will play down.

I forget myself when I dance.

My experience has shown me that many people struggle with forgiveness of self and/or others.

We seem, particularly over here in the West and in America in particular, to have forgotten that we are, in large measures, the story we tell ourselves about ourselves.

Perhaps we've got so involved in the false selves we project on social media that we've forgotten that our real selves, our private selves, are different, are worth saving.

I don't want to be a shell of my former self.

I don't think of myself as a former actor. I think of myself as a reformed actor.

Everything I do is true to the person I am. To me, there's not too much distinction between Elias and my former name.

I can consider myself my audience, and I'm not that weird. I'm fortunate in the things that I like, most people like.

I left Fleetwood Mac to make myself happy, and fortunately, it worked.

Fortunately, I have always played younger than what I am.

I've only dressed in drag three or four times.

When we frame women's choices in terms of extreme work or extreme mothering, women think they have to define themselves in terms of a single goal, everything else be damned.

The worst frame of mind to be in is what the fans like or what the fans want, because then you lose the authenticity of who you are as an artist and who you are as a person.

I don't live in France; I live in myself.

You are not going to change me and if you do, it will look like a fraud, it will be a fraud.

I am a big believer in letting your own personal freak flag fly.

Growing up in Fife, you were aware that there were these creatures called lesbians, but it was in the realms of complete freakishness. And I didn't feel like a freak.

I'm shorter, I don't have as many freckles as Ron, and I can't do magic.

I have always been Fred Durst and I've always been me.