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Quotes About Self

I spent more time playing a person I was not than the person I am.
~ Sarah Jessica Parker
Somebody'll be me, tomorrow or whenever. I've been doing this awhile. My time's limited. I've been doing this awhile.
~ Scott Raab
You're never really playing yourself. You're always acting. It's an illusion that you're really playing yourself. The only time I'm playing myself is when I'm at home!
~ Steve Guttenberg
I've always sort of time-locked and mind-blocked myself in my 30s, and that's always the age I feel.
~ Steven Spielberg
each time that I have run away - and from a habit it quickly became an illness - I have betrayed someone. Myself, but not always only myself.
~ Storm Jameson
Every time I deny myself I commit a kind of suicide.
~ Susan Griffin
Sometimes it takes some time out on your own to find your way back home.
~ Taylor Dane
... I am the same personal being who in old times upon the Earth had those experiences.
~ William James
Nature has been mastering itself for some time now, and it is an honor to be able to capture its beauty.
~ Justin Beckett
I've always tried to be honest, and it would be too difficult for me to develop some kind of persona. I don't have enough time or energy for that.
~ Kathy Bates
I never had the influence of any other singer in my music, so I sounded like myself all the time.
~ Kiri Te Kanawa
We only get to be one person; we don't even get to choose that person. By the time we get ahold of ourselves, we are pieces already in play.
~ Laini Taylor
Infinity is just time on an ego trip.
~ Lily Tomlin
for many people, loneliness was an experience of time. 'Not knowing what to do with yourself' was the way it was usually put.
~ Louise Bernikow
Be mindful at all times of the following: the nature of the whole universe, the nature of the part that is me, the relation of the one to the other, the one so vast, the other so small.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Time is but a phantom dagger That motion lifts to slay itself.
~ Maxwell Bodenheim
Time is the enemy of identity
~ Michael Moorcock
I have no idea what my persona would be. As far as I'm concerned, I'm changing all the time.
~ Miranda Richardson
If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.
~ Mark Twain
Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought.
~ Mark Twain
Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'.
~ Mark Twain
Are you an American? No, I am not an American. I am the American.
~ Mark Twain
They say I work for the angels they never said I was one
~ Mark Twain
They are common defects of my own, and one mustn't criticise other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself.
~ Mark Twain