Quotes About Self

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

I don't use a hat as a prop. I use it as a part of me.

Everyone thinks these are self-portraits but they aren't meant to be. I just use myself as a model because I know I can push myself to extremes, make each shot as ugly or goofy or silly as possible.

You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.

What use could the humanities be in a digital age? University students focusing on the humanities may end up, at least in their parents' nightmares, as dog-walkers for those majoring in computer science. But, for me, the humanities are not only relevant but also give us a toolbox to think seriously about ourselves and the world.

I used to be a cool chick but I'm not anymore.

There is no me. I do not exist. There used to be a me but I had it surgically removed.

I actually used to smile a lot in pictures. I think I only stopped smiling when I got into fashion. Fashion stole my smile!

A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.

There's a fine line between something saving you time and replacing a bit of you that could be useful. I've certainly become more and more aware of that.

The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.

Anything that's been useful to me as a person has been useful to me as an actor. Anything in the interest of your happiness will affect your work. The more comfortable you become in your own skin, the better you are as another identity.

It's okay to be inspired by other people and it can be a useful learning tool to play other people's music, but let out what's inside of you.

Thanks to social media, we've also been able to show ourselves as we are. In the end, masks are useless. You have to be real.

'I' is the word everyone uses to refer to themselves. On the one hand, it points to a specific person, but it's also this blank space that you can insert yourself into; it's a chute into empathy.

Galileo got it wrong. The earth does not revolve around the sun. It revolves around you and has been doing so for decades. At least, this is the model you are using.

I just want to lose weight and get back to being my usual self. There's too much flesh.

I'm not cut out for that life; for sharing my life. Whether it's getting married, or having kids. That too drastically changes your life. Everything important to you becomes less important, because the child gains utmost importance.

I'm still Elliott Yamin. I'm still the funky white Jewish boy from Richmond, Va.

We've got ourselves into a very vain state of society and there's more important things.

I'm vain, I can be vain!

I would say it's part tomboy, part hipster, definitely part want-to-be-very-comfortable. Fashion is a way for me to express myself. I guess I'm vain in that sense. It's not a bad thing.

I'm pretty vain.

Sometimes it's good to just sing and let the words come out. Whatever comes out is valid because it's what you were thinking.