Be Myself Quotes

My vanity is not dead. I laugh when I see pictures of myself as I am now-maybe so I won't cry, but just because it is really funny how much I've changed.

I wanted to support things that are helpful to people and maybe bash what I think is dangerous. So I switched from being everybody to being myself.

I was both loved and hated for being upfront. But I was just being myself.

I'm glad that I never ended up killing myself, though I came close more times than I would like to admit.

It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes. My aim lies not in that direction; I love myself too well.

I saw a picture of myself when I came out of the hospital. I didn't recognize myself.

In one sentence, I'd describe myself as indescribable. But, I wouldn't end it with a period. I'd end it with three dots.

How I would describe my characters is absolutely different from how I would describe myself.

I climbed on the rowing ergometer, and started to pull - losing myself in the rhythm of sweat and pain.

I would describe myself as a "total conservative, a conscientious one."

I don't do the L.A. scene. I stay focused and very myopic. I don't feel I need to prove myself or be in people's faces, especially in this town.

I lay on the bed and lost myself in stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyways.

I love challenging myself, doing different things and exploring different areas that I haven't been to or gone to before. That's what I love about acting, and that's what I love about film.

I have seriously thought about retiring, but that was on a good day. On a bad day I've thought about killing myself.

If I stay alert, then I can challenge myself, and by challenging myself, that helps me to stay alive and to hopefully take something away from the experience.

As I learn to love myself, I recieve the love I desire from others.

Behind the camera, I was invisible. When I lifted it up to my eye it was like I crawled into the lens, losing myself there. and everything else fell away.

Even after I got some recognition and success, I still had to work hard and prove myself.

I need to trust myself and go where my instincts tell me, and to be as wild and free as possible in my creative decisions.

When I was married, I wasn't loving myself. Now I'm in love with myself. I will get married again.

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.

Are there moments when I see unrequited crushes or ex-boyfriends slow dancing with their dates and kind of want to stab myself in the spleen with a salad fork? Yeah, sure.

I believe the reason for my early independence is sport, through which I learnt at an early stage to take care of myself and be disciplined.

Today I trust my instinct, I trust myself. Finally.

If the worst that happens is that I wake up and see a picture of myself and a headline saying, 'He wasn't very funny last night', then I've got nothing to complain about.

I failed at the biggest things there are in life. I failed in my health, I failed in my marriage, I failed in everything, and I've picked myself up and gone on.

Essentially, I'm untrained, so I just go with my imagination and try to put myself as solidly as I can into the shoes of whatever person I'm going to be playing.

My style is kind of eclectic and I don't like to do the same thing over and over again. I like to have fun and explore myself so you won't see the same design.

I like to think that I represent myself as a strong woman, so to work with other strong women I find very inspiring.

My body looks like 30 but my face looks like 50. But I cannot walk bare-chested in the streets. I like to do these movies to challenge myself physically.

When I am myself, I am happy and have a good result.

I used to like to make myself sad, so I would listen to Bill Callahan as Smog.

I've never tried to pass myself off as anything more than a comedian who wrote a dating book.

When I get up in the morning and put on a pink or a green wig, I see myself as a piece of animation. It lets me be the person I want to be, a person who's not embarrassed to have fun.

I talk to myself, especially in the car.

My first ever job after college was as a flight attendant. I wanted to travel and could not afford it, so I decided to get myself a job where I could travel. I did it for two years and had great fun.

Although Omaha is my birthplace and the place I grew up, I don't see myself spending extended amounts of time there. I feel almost more comfortable and more at peace in New York.

When I got into music, I wanted to learn guitar just enough to be able to write songs. I wanted to be able to express myself.

Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself to sit down until I came up with something.

The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised.

In myself I am nothing. It all comes from God and the Virgin Mary.

I know what my limitations are as an actor, but my strength is putting myself into a well-written part. When I get in trouble is when I have to fix it, or when I have to carry it on personality.

There's been so much media about me being a surfer dude and a lot of other jobs. I guess it's time to prove myself, to let the people know, heck, I've a brain.

I'm finding myself very comfortable talking to medical audiences, and proving to them that underlying the material fields of the universe are force fields.

I'd quite like to do a film but I'd also love to do more theatre. I want to keep challenging myself with good roles. It's harder for women because there aren't as many challenging roles.

When I started singing about my life and what I was going through, I felt more confident. It was my own life, I was being myself, I was telling people what was happening.

I like to play fast. I get excited, and I have to sort of control myself, restrain myself. But when the rhythm section gets cooking, I want to explode.

I'll do my best to always put God and neighbor ahead of ego, but I want to find myself, and if finding myself means losing my ego self, I'll go there.

I was in television drama, which is a first cousin to the movies, and I trust myself to make the right decisions.

Microblogs are yet another form of public display, but I would rather be true to myself.