Quotes About Self-perception

I like to tell myself people look at me for all sorts of reasons. Maybe they're staring because they're shocked or maybe they recognise me from TV, or maybe they just like my shoes - especially women, because we all look at each other's clothes and hair.

I didn't have a very starry school career, I was medium to above average, nothing special.

The kids today all seem to think they should be stars, but I wasn't brought up that way.

It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen.

I don't wear a lot of jeans, which I know is a controversial statement. I just don't feel the most like myself in jeans.

I remember somebody asking me in an interview years ago if I would be interested in playing Jason Bourne. I laughed: I didn't think anybody would want to see me run around with a machine gun. It always stayed in the back of my head that I had reacted like that. It bothered me.

I never felt like someone who was boyish and coming to terms with asking girls out or anything like that, which was what 'The Big Steal' and 'Spotswood' were about. But I guess that's the impression I left on people.

I saw everyone else as 'normal' and myself as messed up in a way. And all of that made me so angry. Stealing allowed me to take my anger out on something else.

I think you have to kind of feel like you're pretty handsome and cool to be able to step into an audition for some kind of lead hero, and that's just not how I look.

I don't particularly consider myself an actor. I have no training. I love doing it, but I would never consider myself to be a colleague of an actual actor. That would be stepping way up in class on my part.

When I look at myself, I'm not a big man - I'm a guard. I can do everything on the basketball court. You can name it - pass, post up, shoot the ball, bring the ball up, being a playmaker - so I'm excited to break that stereotype.

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

It's strange how you're sometimes forced to assume an unsympathetic view of yourself through borrowed eyes.

The conscious experience of being a subject arises when a single organism learns to enslave itself.

In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

It is difficult, my dear Lucius, to escape becoming the person others believe one to be. A slave is twice enslaved, once by his chains and once again by the glances that fall upon him and say "thou slave.

bodies, we have never met face-to-face with our kidneys, how we wouldn't recognize our own liver in a row of livers, how we have never seen our own heart or brain.

Therefore hold this fact of not being the object of your own disapproval

One of man's greatest flaws is that he thinks far too highly of what he does.

I wanted to change my name when I first started because I thought, 'No-one is going to believe that it is my name.'

Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!

I've had some people tell me they're glad I'm a normal girl. Of course I'm a normal girl!

I can't remember who told me but I was advised early on not to Google myself or read things about myself... I don't read a lot but get the gist of what's been said from friends and family. It's good to avoid it if you want to be normal person.