Quotes About Self

The 'soul' is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

The play is not in the words, it's in you!

I just feel like you should be able to have a respectful work environment, because if you do, you'll be your best self.

I'm more interested in having a place to work out my voice and my body than I am in having furniture.

The paradox is that I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make, and I believe it has an important place. Others do, too, and the thousands of people with Morrissey tattoos certainly proves something.

I'd rather there wasn't an afterlife, really. I'd much rather not be me for thousands of years.

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.

It is the mass dream of inverted self, populous with fears overt and secret, that forms the continuous but gossamer thread upon which are strung as phantom beads all civilizations from the remotest past of record to that of the present day and hour.

I have three alter egos.

I don't always have to sing a song. There is something besides 'The Man That Got Away' or 'Over the Rainbow' or 'The Trolley Song.' There's a woman. There are three children. There's me! There's a lot of life going here.

If I want to say I'm a man for three minutes, then be it: I'm a man for three minutes.

No one knows the three-dimensional story of who I am. Or anyone is.

I've never felt massively satisfied from standing there while someone takes my photograph. It's never given me a thrill.

The self was a very strange concept to me until I came to America, and my child was born with that entitlement, and that just thrilled me.

I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.

I couldn't be 'Johnny' in front of a camera in acting jobs and behind the camera I like to be 'Michael.' With directing, you can't do it by halves. There's a lot of reflection, and I have found that I, as 'Michael,' thrive on it. It's lovely coming home and feeling that stuff from a day's work as myself.

Everyone seems to be fleeing from the responsibilities that come from being who you are. I think that is why the blogosphere is thriving. It allows people to develop a fantasy self.

The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.

Be yourself, let you come through.

To establish yourself as a leading man, you're shooting for the smallest point on the target, and you get a lot of judgment thrown at you. It takes a lot for them to get past everything and just watch your art and what you're doing.

Philosophically, what I have learned is to thy own self be true. That is the biggest lesson of all. Relax; music is fun. To many people take it to seriously because of the money involved.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

I see myself as a comic but the acting helps sell tickets for gigs.

The anonymity of the internet has been completely abandoned - everything's so tied to your identity and sense of self now. It's hard for me to see that changing, but that's why I wrote a love letter to something that once was.