Quotes About Self-perception

You all want the whole world to be changed so you will be different. But I don't suppose people get changed any by just a new world. And anyway that world isn't any more real than this one.

The ego is first and foremost a bodily ego; it is not merely a surface entity, but is itself the projection of a surface.

You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.

The way I approached a question, my habit of mind, the way I looked at things, what I took for granted - all this was myself and it did not seem to me that I could alter it.

I pensieri vanno e vengono a loro piacere, nella nostra testa. Non lo si fa apposta a credere a ciò che si crede.

La bella storia che era la mia vita diventava falsa a mano a mano che me la raccontavo

Je suis peut-être mesquine mais je voudrais qu'ils meurent tous pour que s'anéantisse la lamentable image qu'ils se font à présent de moi.

Es en el objeto finito que crea, donde el hombre, encontrará un reflejo fijo de su trascendencia.

The reality of the world is the result of our attachment. It is the reality of the self which we transfer into things. It has nothing to do with independent reality. That is only perceptible through total detachment. Should only one thread remain, there is still attachment.

An actor who believes that he really is King Lear is emotionally ill.

I consider myself perfectly normal, and I don't know of any part of my life that would be so unusual as to interest the idly curious.

I guess what I find so interesting about memory, and its role in a person's identity, is how the attempt to achieve accuracy requires you to remove yourself from your life in an authorial manner.

Look, I play all these tough guys and thugs and strong, complex characters. In real life, I am a cringing, neurotic Jewish mess. Can't I for once play that on stage?

People are not prisoners of fate, but prisoners of their own minds.

I have played so many romantic roles that I don't know if I am really a romantic in real life. I get confused about the real me.

The longer I do my job the more I realize that humans lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.

Everybody looks good in their own mirror!

What others think of you doesn't matter as much as what you think of yourself.

There is a thin line between confidence, and arrogance. Sadly those people who have no confidence often confuse the two when confronted with a person who possesses belief in themselves.

People view their own behaviors as originating from situations beyond their control, but they view other people's behaviors as originating from inherent personality traits.

A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n.

We're not afraid of who we are. We're afraid of who we think we're not.

We are all worms. But I do believe that I am a glowworm. WINSTON CHURCHILL

I'm 190 pounds of rock hard muscle, underneath 40 pounds of sturdy protective fat.