Quotes About Self

Je ne suis ni le maître ni l'esclave, Jupiter. Je suis ma liberté! À peine m'as-tu créé que j'ai cessé de t'appartenir

My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think . . . and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this very moment—it's frightful—if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing.

I would so like to let myself go, forget myself, sleep. But I can't, I'm suffocating: existence penetrates me everywhere, through the eyes, the nose, the mouth... And suddenly, suddenly, the veil is torn away, I have understood, I have seen.

I don't think that there's much hiding that actors can do. If you're doing good work, you're showing a part of yourself to someone.

If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

I don't want to say work is who I am, but some people feel more centered and more whole when they're producing and creating.

Don't try to take on a new personality; it doesn't work.

Your life is a work of art, a craft to be carefully mastered. For patience has replaced time, and you are your own destination.

Im a firm believer that actors take to work who they arent at home. People show their other self in their art or in their work.

As a slave [to fashion], I can be very dramatic and very demanding of myself and of the people I work with.

Ultimately you are doing what you do for one of two reasons: to serve oneself or to serve God. There is enough time in every day to do God's work...in God's way.

I just see myself as an object in the final image. I know I'm experiencing it when I'm there working on it. I'm there to be worked with, as anything else that I work with.

All the work you do, is done for your own salvation, is done for your own benefit.

You too are a work of art.

No man will work for your interests unless they are his.

I take the work seriously, just not myself in it.

I've decided I can't really control people's perceptions of me. All I can do is decide on what I work on and how hard I work on it.

I think my work has become more interesting, well to me anyway.

The genius of poetry must work out its own salvation in a man; it cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation and watchfulness in itself. That which is creative must create itself.

I believe a lot in what I do and in my work. I believe in me.

The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form.

Costumes, fashion, it's all an expression of self, and the more you push the boundaries - the more that people work at creating alternative ideas - the more it changes people's ideas of beauty.

At the end of oneself was the best place to discover the Lord at work.

It's about empowering girls, You're gonna have bad boyfriends and best friends-turned-enemies. You need to be yourself, you need to work hard, and you'll get there.