Quotes About Self

I shop, therefore I am.

They say I'm worth either €200 million, €100 million, €50 million or €10 million, but that's something between God, the HMRC and myself.

I've always been a searcher - you know, a hunter. I'm certainly not the only one. They say actors shouldn't get political and everything, but you can't separate yourself. You can't disconnect yourself from anything.

They say that every writer, they write about himself, and I think that to a certain extent that is true. But also we are creators of fiction.

I am who I am. I was never 'in,' as they say. Never.

I don't believe you just create a character out of thin air, there's always something of yourself you bring.

Admiration from my readers inspire me, and the only 'formula' I believe in towards making a good writer is: 'to thine own self be true!'

It was reading Hamlet that ruined the concept of authenticity for me, not because Hamlet lacked existentialist credentials himself - indeed, as an earlier discontented Dane, he could be said to have laid the ground for Kierkegaard - but because the line 'to thine own self be true' was spoken by that humourless old ninny, Polonius.

The single most powerful thing I can be is to be myself.

I'm a great believer in fate. I think things happen in spite of, and despite, yourself.

I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

The Self is self-luminous without darkness and light, and is the reality which is self-manifest. Therefore, one should not think of it as this or as that. The very thought of thinking will end in bondage.

I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

Just do you. Go with the flow and with your life because that's you experiencing life. You being yourself is you doing your purpose, so the more we get out of the mindset of thinking there's a certain way to go about things, the more free we become.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

Everyone thinks they're the hero in their own story.

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.

A man is always better than he thinks.

Everyone thinks Lily Allen is this brash, bold, funny person. It was all just a bit of a facade and bravado.

Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I'm me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts.

Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing.