Quotes About Self-perception

There are two things no man will admit he cannot do well: drive and make love.

Approved attributes and their relation to face make every man his own jailer; this is a fundamental social constraint even though each man may like his cell.

Inside every fat man, there's a thin man trying to get out.

All men think they're fascinating. In my case, it's justified.

For awhile, I got stupid about only wanting a leading-man role, but I have no illusions. I know I'm not Brad Pitt.

Bowie's a real man, and I'm a real woman - just like Catherine Deneuve.

Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.

The only difference between a wise man and a fool is that the wise man knows he's playing.

No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.

So long as you "have" yourself, have yourself as an object, your experience of man is only as of a thing among things.

I regard myself as a man without charm in a country of charmers.

Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.

I have a personality defect where I sort of refuse to see myself as an underdog... It's because of my parents. They raised me with the entitlement of a tall, blond, white man.

I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.

Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread.

Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world... Hiro used to feel this way, too, but then he ran into Raven. In a way, this was liberating. He no longer has to worry about being the baddest motherfucker in the world. The position is taken.

I wasn't gifted. Mom was wrong. I was just smart and I worked hard. I had fooled myself into thinking that was something important to the rest of the world. Other people were complicit in this ruse. Nobody had told me I was common.

Huh, yeah,' Johnny says. 'My mom was always complimenting me, and look how I turned out.

Your own actions are a better mirror of your life than the actions of all your enemies put together.

But then again, he hadn't really been looking, had he? Both Valarie and Lori claimed that there was something inside of him they were unable to reach, something about the way he viewed himself that neither of them could really understand. An though he knew they meant well, their attempts to talk to him about this distance of his didn't – or couldn't – change anything.

I had my mouth done when I was 27. It was a botched job. Obviously, if I had liked my mouth I wouldn't have had it re-done.

I don't think of myself as a dancer. I think of myself as a singer-actress who moves really well.

I never really felt like a movie star until 'Police Woman.'

I never got into this business thinking I'd be like a movie star.