Quotes About Self

It's fun to watch someone like John Goodman, and yet it takes work. People say 'he's not acting, he's being himself.' Well it's hard to be yourself, it's the hardest job there is.

The only plan I have is to not do anything I don't want to do - and to never work just for money.

Remember that work is not a place for self-fulfillment. If it were, you would know it.

Never forget that to forgive yourself is to release trapped energy that could be doing good work in the world.

The world is a work of art that gives birth to itself.

For the artist to attach himself to his work, or identify himself with it, is suicidal.

It's just so fragile. The growing sense of 'Oh, God, what am I doing Am I any good Will I ever work again' All those questions of self doubt, they do creep in.

My first name used to be Leslie. I snipped that off and put my middle name, which was Steven, in the front.

I think I'm confident because I'm free, I challenge myself, and I stick to what I do.

I'm still the same person I've always been.

The only difference between Benito and Bad Bunny is 16 million followers on Instagram. And the money that Bad Bunny has in the bank. Benito had, like, $7. The numbers are different, but I'm still the same. Even my insecurities remain the same.

I don't know how happy I was when I met Sting. I always had this difficulty of not really knowing who I was.

No one owns you. One hundred per cent of the stock in your personal corporation belongs to you.

But as a player, you feel sad that at this level you are being singled out for the fact that I stood up for myself. I have not done anything wrong standing up for myself.

And if you stop and think about it you won't believe it's true: That all the love you've been giving has all been meant for you.

As we decipher our biology and learn to modify and adjust it, we are learning to modify ourselves - and we will do so. No laws will stop this.

So I think it's - what was important to me is that I found that I can't change the fact that people already have made an opinion about me. But I don't think that should stop me from trying to correct some of the misperceptions that are out there.

I stopped a lot of people who wanted to shove me into the real big time. Your ego wants to say, 'Hey, I'm somebody, man,' but I knew there were many days when I just wanted to be John Cale.

I stopped smoking. But my personality I still have. I get up in the morning, and not everybody loves me, so if you want to call that a bad habit, there's that.

Creating a representation of yourself for the Internet stopped making sense when we were all on phones and connected everywhere.

I think much has been made of this alter ego business. I mean, I actually stopped creating characters in 1975 - for albums, anyway.

I think it hurt my performance because I stopped being me. That won't ever happen again.

I still don't consider myself as going Hollywood. I did a movie because the opportunity presented itself and it was fun. When everything stops being fun, I'll go onto something else.

I think just having everybody know who you are is more of a challenge. More than anything about it is just knowing people are watching. I know who I am, so it's watching things I say, what I do. Even if I'm in line at one of the rest stops or something, it's just being on my Ps and Qs at all times more than anything.