Quotes About Self

I am a work in progress dressed in the fabric of a world unfolding.

You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.

Please yourself, not others... It must first work for you if it is ever to be useful to others.

My combined experiences, doing different films, has made me very concerned about and interested in how you protect your creative self when the work, by default, is going to be judged by people.

I early found that when I worked for myself alone, myself alone worked for me; but when I worked for others also, others worked also for me.

Work is an almost pure expression of the self.

The self cannot be escaped, but it can be, with ingenuity and hard work, distracted.

[A writer] should try not to be too far, personally, below the level of his work.

I'm a happy man because whatever I'm doing, I do for myself and I do a little creating here and there for others, and they work out very well.

I believe things will work out for us if we just believe in ourselves.

I credit my parents for instilling in me a good work ethic and the sensibility that God serves those best who serve themselves.

I feel I always have to work harder, I have to impress all the time. Impress whom? With what? People say, "Just be yourself." Well, my anxiety is that people aren't going to want that.

In fact, other people create for lack of power. I, on the other hand, do not need a work: I live.

I follow these intimate connections of strangers and, surprise!, end up finding even myself in the work at some point.

I turned my pain into art and my hard work into a career. Helping myself has helped others. helping others has helped me.

the more visible my work became, the less visible I grew to myself.

But if your work is your art, a personal reflection of who you are, the only person who can do that better than you, is a future you.

I'm the one I need to work with.

I'm naturally quite lazy, and I actually think I'm lax about my career. None of my work defines who I am.

You take the work seriously, you don't take yourself seriously. You keep that straight and you'll do well the rest of your life.

I feel very jealous towards women who can say, "I'm going to stay home and be a mom." I wish that's what fulfilled me but I like to work and I have to have something for myself.

I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.

We as actors doubt up until the last minute that we can be this person. So everything matters, the more work you do, you get in touch with who the character is.

I don't understand myself in relationships and I don't understand relationships. So to continue to explore them and to try and work that out is honestly what I am really doing.