Quotes About Self

See yourself relaxing in your humility, being yourself—and thus ready to jump to the second curve. But you still do have to jump.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

That which comes and goes, rises and sets, is born and dies is the ego. That which always abides, never changes, and is devoid of qualities is the Self.

Our mind must be free in order to express our qualities.

One of the most consistent defining qualities of sentience is that we define it as human, as the thing that we possess that others do not.

What's sad is that there is an addictive quality to that, to believing your own hype; to allowing yourself to become validated by others and no longer by yourself. That's the danger of celebrity.

It is all about quality of life and being proud of what I do. I need me to be me.

Like I said, I've always been a lazy drag queen. I'm actually a boy and I hate dressing up. I don't hate it. It's fun, but it's not something that I like doing all the time.

I am a man who happens to play women's parts. And I'm not a drag queen. I'd like to think that I'm several levels above that.

Truly, I have boundaries. I am someone who has a very, very, strong, amazing, powerful boundaries. I'm the boundary queen.

Me, I look in the mirror and all I see is this Jewish kid from Queens.

I identify as queer. I just don't know what any of these labels mean.

I feel like, almost overnight, and this is weird to say about myself, I've become a queer advocate without even meaning to.

The idea that there is a sharp boundary between our true inner selves and the outside world is pervasive but highly questionable. The boundaries of the self might well be more porous than we ordinarily think.

The very act of questioning whether you exist proves you do, because you must be there for the doubt to be entertained in the first place.

Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.

I thought people would ask me really personal questions because I've shown more of myself, but it's a comedy, and people understand that it's a game we play.

I can't be quiet, as that's when I notice the ringing in my ears.

It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself.

I never said I want to be an actor. I just went quietly, quietly, I'm going to do this myself, so I chose the journey in my own way.

I'm in my own fantasy team as well, so there's quite a bit of pressure on it.

People think of me as the blonde loud lairy one from Girls Aloud, but that's not me when I go home at the end of the night, that was a persona I was given in the band and I did play up to it quite a lot but that's not me 24/7.

We've all got darkness inside us. And I've got quite a lot of darkness.

I used to think aging was a scam, a total abdication of your self. Well, aging's not a scam, but quitting is.