Quotes About Self

Gender-neutral clothing is often, for lack of a better term, bags on bags. A baggy shirt with baggy pants, that sort of erases any individuality, as opposed to enhancing it.

I act because it's the one time I'm sure of my identity. There's no doubt. It's on paper.

None but himself can be his parallel.

Football should not be your source of identity. This one is important to me because I am much more than the player. My faith, my wife, my family, and the work I do off the field is paramount to feeling whole.

It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.

For some people, becoming a parent does change them, but it never changed me.

Becoming a mother has made all the difference in terms of learning to take more responsibility for myself and my life. Parenthood changed the way I do everything.

I don't want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris.

I take the medication for myself so I can transact, not for anyone else. But I am aware that it is empowering for people to see what I do and, for the most part, people in the Parkinson's community are just really happy that Parkinson's is getting mentioned, and not in a pitying way.

My father grew up in an era when to be an American - a white American, at least - was to be yourself. In some respects, his generation was more ignorant, complacent, self-centered and parochial than mine.

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.

If you want to participate in life, you have to deny your identity.

We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.

Forget the press - just being a partner of somebody who's very, very famous, it's hard to keep your center and your personality intact.

It's very important in any relationship that one partner doesn't lose themselves in the other, and that's very easy if you're involved with a celebrity.

It's always my biggest insecurity - disappointing myself or my partner.

There are times I think it might be nice to have deep-pocketed limited partners to provide me with some cushion. But I enjoy having no responsibilities except to myself, financially.

Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.

And now oddly I'm getting sexier parts than I've ever gotten.

There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.

A woman's body never really belongs to herself. As an infant, my body was my mother's, a detachable extension of her own, a digestive passage clamped and unclamped from her body. My parents would watch over it, watch over what went into and out of it, and as I grew up, I would be expected to carry on their watching by myself.

I just passed my identification crisis and came back to country music.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

Sometimes I hear fans say that 'you should play for the emblem on the shirt.' I play for myself because after two inaccurate passes the fans are already cursing you.