Quotes About Self

My personal philosophy is that people should be extremely selfish for the first half of their life and extremely unselfish for the second half because then they can do the most good.

To ignore one's spiritual self is unsettling, to say the least. That's a very profound outlook on it.

Have you ever been married? Had that thing of someone calling you by a name not your own? It's unsettling. It's like a fictitious person.

I can still feel unsure in myself, and l'm still insecure about certain things, but my desire to be happy and my desire to be free is very strong.

Each book should be an entity unto itself, with its own structure, character, life, name.

I have an unusual face.

There's something messed up with my brain.

I feel a responsibility to myself, and not so much for the world at large. Because of my Calvinistic upbringing, I was trained to think that what you do has to have a purpose.

I think growing up, the assimilation of most cultural conventions typically encouraged by a heightened awareness of gender and sex encourages a sort of separation of the self. What's so special about 'Hanna' is that her upbringing has negated this indoctrination; she's almost absolved of the pressures of gender or gender itself.

You make decisions, take actions, affect the world, receive feedback from the world, incorporate it into yourself, then the updated 'you' makes more decisions, and so forth, 'round and 'round.

There are two 'faiths' which can uphold humans: faith in God and faith in oneself. And these two faiths should exist side by side: the first belongs to one's inner life, the second to one's life in society.

I don't have an image. Don't give me one. I want no image to have to uphold.

I just feel to be confident in yourself is to surround yourself with positive people, people that uplift you and are only here for what you do and love what you do.

While I'd like to make movies that are uplifting, there's always that part of you that goes, 'I want to play the evil guy because it's not me.' So anything that is not me is a challenge, and if I rise to the challenge, then I've kind of proved myself.

I have my ups and my downs like anyone. All I can do is be me.

If you focus on the actions of others and allow them to constantly upset you, then you are handing your peace over to them and giving away your power.

In rock stardom there's an absolute economic upside to self-destruction.

The upside of social media is you can craft how you want people to see you in some way.

You cannot act a color. Do not tell me I'm acting black, because I'm not. I'm acting whatever you want to call it - urban. I don't even have a name for it. I just call it 'me.'

I've been around for a long time now, and you start to hear these urban legends about yourself.

One is not born a woman - one becomes one.

In our civilization men are afraid they will not be men enough and women are afraid they might be considered only women.

Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.

From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.