Quotes About Self

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

I can do anything I want with the rest of my body, but the face is something I've inherited. I should thank my parents for it.

The individualist is an atom thinking about himself (Thank God I am not as other men); the communist, too often, is an atom having ecstasies of self-denial (Thank God I am one in a crowd).

I am very thankful and blessed that I haven't had to sell my soul and be anything that I'm not.

We all turn into something different, I'm just glad that I'm aware that I've had this alter ego since I was five years old and thankfully it hasn't got me into too much trouble.

The hardest thing is not caring about other people's opinions.

The hardest thing about becoming famous is trying not to lose yourself. The thing I like best about it is the recognition of my work.

The hardest thing to have is success, because it seems to tell people what you are. But it doesn't.

In conclusion we may say, in view of the confirmation that our study has given of the parallelism between individual and racial thought of the Self, that in the history of psychology we discern the great profile which the race has drawn on the pages of time.

The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.

In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.

It's your inner life that's the most important.

The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.

The only thing I know anything about are my own fantasies and anxieties. I don't trust my eyes. I consider myself to be a short-story writer.

The only thing I don't have is hips.

For the longest, I was slightly naive when it came to the real world. There were a lot of fears I was afraid to conquer that were just holding me back from standing up for myself or taking chances.

When I became my masked identity I was this incredible little nerd, but in the real world I had to be this tough kid from the neighborhood.

Obviously, you have to find the confidence within yourself to pursue your ideas, but there's nothing wrong with having people around you who are going to say, 'I think that's a great idea,' or, 'I think you're doing the right thing.'

With the music that I've put out, I realized that putting pressure on an album isn't always the right thing to do for yourself.

Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!

When I am sitting in a movie theater with my girlfriends or boyfriend, I think how cool would it be to watch a movie with me in it.

'The Fever' is a one-person play. I decided I would perform it myself, and I decided I would not perform it in theaters, because the character in the play says certain things that I meant.

The only theatre I do is my own. Somehow, my life is the only life that I can play.