Quotes About Self

sometimes our future is dictated by what we are, as opposed to what we want.

I think you can do whatever you want. In the end, we all live the life we choose for ourselves.

In the end, the only one you can ever really please is yourself. How others feel is up to them.

Maybe I'd like to be defined by what I am.

You think you know me, but I'm not sure that even I know who I am anymore.

It is amazing, what you can make yourself believe, when you have to. If you keep telling yourself you are a certain kind of person, eventually you will become that person. That's what the Final Solution was all about, really.

the only one you can ever really please is yourself. How others feel is up to them.

One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.

My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.

My voice is who I am, who I was when I was 3, and who I am going to be when I am 90 years old. When I hit the stage and people do not know who I am, they automatically assume, before I open my mouth, I am going to sing a Bob Marley song!

What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.

I have been in this industry for over a decade, and I still don't consider myself a movie star.

If you don't have the right people around you and you're moving at a million miles an hour you can lose yourself.

I developed a sense of self before moving to crazy Hollywood, which was really important.

Muhammad is more human, more self-doubting, even self-tortured at times. His story is full of adventure, intrigue, betrayal.

I see my self-identity in the same way I see most things: a list, in greatest to least importance. I've found I can't use the multitude of hats analogy or some kind of flow chart where circles are connected by lines and entwined in Venn diagrams. I need a list. I need a top shelf.

My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.

I needed to prove to myself - to the manager, to the fans, even to my mum and dad - that I'm not just an average player.

I definitely don't think of myself as an actual male model. I'm far too short and my legs are far too muscular.

I had a blind belief in myself and became a music director and an actor.

Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am.

He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest.

I love my heritage both as someone who grew up as a Muslim and as an Indian - it's part of who I am and I would never deny it.

If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?