Quotes About Self

The person I am on the court is not who I am off the court.

The biggest klutz would be myself, so if I could offer help to myself I would. I'm the most off my game most often.

My greatest offering is my concept. It isn't my face.

For me, I have this tough exterior and these Angela Bassett arms, and people think, 'Oh, my God, Rutina's tough.'

My nightmare is that I don't want to be OK.

I think it's an okay thing to express yourself.

It's okay', you know? It's okay to be you. It's okay to just not be okay. It's okay to not be okay.

It's okay for me to be gay, but God didn't make me that way.

You may not be like everyone else, but that's okay. Be who God made you to be.

It's okay to take yourself too seriously if you're a serious actor and you've got the scrubs on. And then with me, it's kind of like, well, I'm a comedian, I'm making fun of everybody and everything. And I'm making fun of myself. I'm having fun making fun of and for other people.

We all want love and to feel safe, wanted, cared for, to like our selves, our bodies, to have families and feel okay in the world.

I feel like my old self on the ice.

It's not like my old self - I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.

I met older actresses who never married, never had children. That's not for me.

I was taught to value hard work. At the end of day, I'm just Olivia.

It's very important for me to focus on myself, on the job I have to do on and off the track with the engineers without really thinking about what people expect of me off the track.

I think that idea that sort of our emotional self and our emotional life is a faucet that you turn on and off, and that we are in control of it entirely, that's a really appealing idea for a lot of people. But there are certainly the times where it's appealing to me, but it never quite works the way I hoped it would.

You have to believe in yourself. If you don't, things can go wrong both on and off the pitch.

It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.

Everyone has an ego. Even someone that doesn't play one minute has an ego.

Having an identity is one thing. Being born into an identity is quite a different matter.

In my own one-woman show, 'Feeling Good,' I talk about my childhood and write a letter to my younger self in the show. The most important thing I would tell her is to trust my instincts. Just trust them. They're little whispers from God, I think. You've heard it a million times, but it's true: Listen to that inner voice.

What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find.

To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.