Quotes About Self

So few humans seem to fully exist themselves that I wonder if all this endless speculation and haggling about God is really an exploration of a more interesting and embarrassing question about ourselves.

I speed up past mirrors.

My only extravagance in life is my sailboat. I'm bonkers about that, but other than that, I don't spend money on myself.

I am in love with my career, doing films I believe in and also spending time with myself.

I didn't see a difference between Spider-Man and Peter Parker, to be honest with you. Peter Parker is always Peter Parker. When he's Spider-Man, he's still Peter Parker, no matter how he's dressed.

Actors have an innate sense of self and humanity, the good ones do, and of being generous of heart and generous of spirit.

Ironically, it is when we identify with our spirits rather than our bodies that we are most powerful on the material plane. Our overidentification with the world does not give us power within the world so much as it diminishes our power here. It makes us frightened and nervous and full of anxiety.

I believe that music is a spiritual language. My everyday self is pretty mundane and boring, but when I'm making music it allows for me to communicate a kind of transcendence that I can't communicate otherwise.

Be it career or marriage, spirituality helps you believe in yourself.

You write a book, it's out for however many years, and with the passing of time, you're not the same person. I'm not the same person I was when I wrote those books; I'm not even the same person I was when I started writing 'Beg.' I had many shifts spiritually, and one of them was in the use of language.

I cannot help it - in spite of myself, infinity torments me.

You're cutting off your nose to spite your face if you try to be self-consciously cutting-edge.

I am not Spock.

I love acting and making your own luck. You have to recreate yourself, I guess. Although, I don't know how.

...but I like who I became just fine. That's the way life is. We all try to make something out of our lives, and some of us are just luckier than others.

The marriage partner is not really the problem. No other person can ultimately make you happy. You must learn how to be happy within yourself.

... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself.

Marriage has just never interested me.

As far as my experience of matrimony goes -- I think it tends to draw you out of, and away from yourself.

Love is who we are without our stories.

A man and a woman marry because both of them don't know what to do with themselves.

All man are the same except for their belief in their own selves, regardless of what others may think of them

I have never met a man who has given me as much trouble as myself.

Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.