Quotes About Self

I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and I have to satisfy myself as an artist. So I always say that I write for the same people that Picasso painted for. I think he painted for himself.

For me, acting is all about the aesthetic. I just want to keep honing my craft. Not that I'm taking myself too seriously, but every artist should consider himself Picasso. Otherwise, you're doing yourself an injustice.

Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.

Ali's belief in himself was something I picked up on, and it's become my own philosophy.

I picked up 'On Moral Fiction' in the bookstore and looked up myself in the index, but I didn't read it through. I try not to read things that depress me.

I am who I am, and I think that's why I'm very grateful to be an Arizona Cardinal: because the team that picked me, they picked me.

I hate having my picture taken.

With every interview you feel like you lose a piece of yourself, and with every bad review you become just that little bit more bitter. It is horrible in a way.

Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public.

Pain is pain, joy is joy - you can't avoid bringing pieces of yourself into a role.

Well, I think that in every character there are little bits and pieces of yourself.

I think there's always pieces of yourself that bleed into your character. That's inevitable.

I don't like the monikers, and I don't like being pigeonholed. You know, I'm a human being.

I'm shooting a pilot based on my show. It's a one-camera show. I play myself.

I've always been interested in how fast-moving our identity is and that I've never been able to pin down who I truly am. That inspires me to write, because I feel like that cements me a bit, in that I find my identity in being an artist.

I mean getting into parliament was quite an achievement in itself and then I have to pinch myself at the thought of actually running a department.

Pink is my favourite colour. I used to say my favourite colour was black to be cool, but it is pink - all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink.

My hair has been this chapter thing for me. In 'Jem,' I have blue hair. 'Insidious,' it's pink. In 'CSI,' I have blonde. I love changing my hair. It's just hair and it grows all the time.

If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.

You concentrate just on yourself. I can't wallow in anything, can't worry about what others are doing.

Dancing is about expressing yourself, and the more walls you let down, the better.

Each person creates boundaries and walls around the self - this often keeps even happiness at bay.

I'm just inspired by how fast-paced my life is. Being around people that I love who are cool and inspiring, that kind of feeds me, but being in lockdown and in the same four walls, you kind of have to bring yourself your own vibes.

Donald Trump is a lost soul wandering this Earth. He's been led down the Willy Loman path and believes his own hype. He's serving his little self and his little ego; otherwise, why would he need to overcompensate so much?