Quotes About Self

I can't specify this enough: when cameras go on, everybody wanna be big and tough. You're not like that in real life.

I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.

I just wanna hear my own voice.

You look in the mirror everyday and you see the same thing. As an entertainer, you wanna see something new.

What's the difference between a personality disorder and a personality? You know? That's what I wanna know!

I just want to be a sane person. I wanna be a person who has a life and who acts.

People expect not just songwriters but all personalities to pontificate about their egos - they just wanna see someone talking about themselves constantly. I'm not interested in that.

Me myself, I wanna wear sweats with my Jordans one day or a dress with my Jeffrey Campbell.

I don't want to be Boogie. I just wanna be DeMarcus.

I don't have to be what you want me to be.

I just want to be the next me or the next best I can be of me.

We all want to be normal, but it's relative to individuality. My normal is not your normal.

I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.

I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I'm not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief.

I wanted this, I wanted to do this, but my work is me, and it has to be right.

Movie acting is a great job for your twenties: You travel all over, you have affairs with people, and you throw yourself into one part and then another. It gets more challenging as you get older, and it's not just having a daughter, it's wanting to have your own life and be yourself.

I suspect, for a lot of people who become actors, there's a feeling of wanting to be someone other than who they actually are.

I'm not one for wardrobe.

I would never share my daughter's wardrobe. Every five years you have to go through your wardrobe and say, 'This is possible, this is not possible.' But you have to be happy with yourself.

People think they need to hire someone to do their PR, but 99 percent of PR in the early stages is stuff you can do yourself. It's just like business development - there's the warm-up intro, followup to build relationships, then add something of value.

I would warn my brethren and sisters to never flatter persons because of their ability; for they cannot bear it. Self is easily exalted, and in consequence, persons lose their balance.

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibility, sense of humor, behavior. He is me.

The reason that it's so easy to go out there and be me - warts and all, critics and everything - is because my family and my career are the only two things that really matter in the big circle of life.