Quotes About Self-perception

I really enjoy the fact that the very boring, normal person that I am isn't kind of interesting to anyone. It's fine by me.

I'm a normal person. I don't see where people come off saying I'm crazy.

The character of the computer whiz is not one that would normally be associated with me.

Comics who consider themselves 'mavericks' or think the crowd doesn't get them are normally lousy comics.

I see myself as 38, but you don't notice it.

I haven't had Botox because my face is a bit lopsided and I depend on keeping everything animated so that people don't notice.

If people want to think I'm an Indian prince, I don't want to dispel that notion.

I'm always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how they want to be seen. And the older you get, the world keeps telling you different things about yourself. And how people either adjust to those things and let go of adolescent notions. Or they dig in deeper.

I wasn't taking myself seriously as a novelist, and then it became my day job.

If I was just a fan of music, I would think that I was the number one artist in the world.

People are confusing me with a good actor when I'm just a good mimic. When someone asks me to play a nun from the fifteenth century, you'll see what I mean.

I don't think I care about the hair as much as people think I do. It's just kind of there. It's not really a big deal to me. It actually drives me nuts. It's always in my face if I don't have a hat on. I might have to get rid of it.

The interesting thing about overeating or being obese is there's this physical manifestation of it.

You can look in the mirror and try to hide it and cover it up, and it may work here or there, but there ain't no shirt or hat you can put on or haircut you can get to hide the fact that you're morbidly obese.

I'm not very good at being objective about myself.

I used to feel an obligation to invent things. I felt I was a failure because I didn't do massive great novels about Australia or the outback or something. I just don't feel that any more.

I always thought of myself as a very, very obscure artist.

A lot of people are obsessed with looking cool. They feel they have to look after their image.

I'd say I'm a pretty intense person. I'm definitely not my Denise character on 'Scrubs,' nor my Jane character on 'Happy Endings,' but I'm a mix of the two. I really feel that I'm kind of every character that I've ever played; it's just a part of me. And I am a bit of a control freak like Jane. I'm very, perhaps, obsessive like that.

For nearly a decade, I thought it was obvious that I was poor.

Obviously I have propagated the occasional myth about myself, because the real me, I'm not worth knowing.

People with a good opinion of themselves tend to enjoy a double life.

The perception of the possibility of greatness in myself has always been followed by desire to murder the nearest unworthy.

With characteristic lack of false modesty, John once said to me, My looks are a rough test of people. If they don't begin to see me beautiful when they have had a chance to learn, I know they're dead inside, and dangerous.