Quotes About Self

As a model you do play a certain role and you know as an actor you play another role.

I've always felt like I have a lot to say, and I wasn't communicating that through modeling.

I've never hung around with any models. I've always hung around with my friends from school and kept myself to myself.

I have role models, but I take the attributes of the people that I admire, and I use them to create my best self.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

I want to invest time in creating moments for myself.

I have many moments of self doubt. Everybody does.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

Despite what people say about my major film roles, I'm not a dull or monotonous woman searching for self-identity.

Marilyn Monroe appeared to be perfect, but she wasn't perfect.

The ego is a fascinating monster.

Everyone carries around his own monsters.

I never quite became the monster I wanted to be. I feel mostly monstrous as I more become myself. Because the more you become yourself, the more it disturbs other people.

The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born with on September 8, 1954, a half-century ago this month.

I kind of see clothes a bit like role-playing, depending what mood I'm in.

When my inner mood is positive, I also feel great on the outside.

I'm not good at dressing up fancy; I always just do my thing, which is whatever I'm in the mood for.

When I wake up, I put on what I'm in the mood to wear.

I definitely dress based on my mood.

Women dress very much according to their moods, so when you see their shoes, it really shows you the character and what they want to show to the world, and what they are feeling at that time.

I don't see myself as a 'black actor,' I'm just Shemar Moore the actor.

It would be easy to say that I want to play a role that was very much like myself, but more or less with acting, you get to be all these different things, and you aren't trying to be yourself, so it's escapism in a way.

More people know who I am, but I don't feel any different within myself - I think that's the main thing.

A lot of people have always asked, is Penn Cage me? And I say no. There's an early character in an earlier novel, 'Mortal Fear,' that's closer to me.