On My Own Quotes

My own understanding is the sole treasure I possess, and the greatest. Though infinitely small and fragile in comparison with the powers of darkness, it is still a light, my only light.

I'd run over my own mother to win the Super Bowl.

For me, acting is like a therapy. I can express myself fully when I am acting and have blood in my veins. Even when I'm not working, I'm always living in my own world, imagining characters.

I, who fall short in managing my own affairs, can see just how it would profit my neighbor if I managed his.

I listen to the gunfire we cannot hear, and begin this journey with the light of knowing the root of my own furious love.

My job as an artist, as I see it, is to understand and in some cases to take on various ways of thinking about people and the world that are different from my own, sometimes radically different.

Sometimes I don't want to talk about it. Not to anyone. No one. No one at all. I just want to think about it on my own. Because it is mine. And no one else's.

I never saw myself so much as an actor. I wanted to be a cartoonist like Charles Schulz and create my own world and be able to have a studio at home and not commute and be able to be with my family.

I do like to collaborate, and I like hearing other people, and I like how somebody's performance will affect my own.

I am not sure of anything, I know nothing . . . can you imagine that I don't even know the date of my own death?

I decided to shift my energy and concentration into changing my lifestyle and diet and taking charge of my own illness.

You need to get up in the morning and say, 'Boy, I'm going to - in my own stupid way - save the world today.'

The money I've earned has enabled me to keep my life in my own hands. I had a terrific body, and I got paid for using it.

I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.

Yes, I'm reckless and sometime express no concern for my own well being, and I express a misanthropic view of the world, but to have an opinion, you can't be a nihilist.

The BBC is a victim of its own independence.

I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.

I literally was famous before I knew my own name.

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

I write to save someone's life, probably my own

I think the older you get, the more you know about life, and the more you learn about yourself and you become comfortable in your own skin. So the older I'm getting, the more fun I'm having.

I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished that God had done otherwise than he did, but which I now see, if I had had my own way, would have led to extensive mischief.

Every now and again it would be considered wholesome for me to be more with people of my own age. Demotion to such company was a sapless exile. Their inanity was insufferable.

I get atomic, hypo-galactical... Word to mom, I'm in my own world. Galaxy rays? Powerful.

I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming.

I sometimes found myself more comfortable around my TV family than I did with my own parents and sister.

My voice likes rock music. My problem is, I can do a lot of things, but I have to find my own voice.

I can look back at my own life and see where a few words of praise have sharply changed my entire future. Can't you say the same thing about your life?

In terms of my own film experience, I'm definitely used to morose and very heavy, heavy dramas.

I've always thought of my own mind as an unruly parliament, with a feeble leader, with crazy extremist factions.

I have my own life. And I am stronger than you know.

I was never good at copying. I was better at doing my own thing!

I kept on digging the hole deeper and deeper looking for the treasure chest until I finally lifted my head, looked up and realized that I had dug my own grave.

I suppose when I was a kid, and I went to movies, and later went to some plays on my own when I got a little older, in New Orleans, where I was living then, I zeroed in on the actor.

I hold the Key to my Own Success! (You do too!)

They say it's the white man I should fear, But it's my own kind doin' all the killin' here.

I write as if to save somebody’s life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them.

I can't get excited by my own music. It's impossible.

I am beneath or above no one. When I am independent of the good or bad opinion of others, I stand strong in my own divine power.

The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.

My father's example taught me self-reliance, to make my own luck, and to work to make things happen.

I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul.

In my own way, I was a rebellious kid.

I buy magazines. I'm not floating around in my own universe. I'm interested in everything.

The problem with memory is that is changes whatever it touches. It is never that accurate. As a result, I end up modifying and revising my own experiences. It's myth making.

If I'm not comfortable in my own skin or confident in who I am, then I'm going to pick parts based on how people are going to view them, not based on what I find challenging or entertaining.

I am conscious of having served England as I served my own country.

When I left school, I got a job in a shoe shop and I used to save 15 quid a week and pay for my own singing and acting lessons.

These were choice documents to me... They gave tongue to interesting thoughts of my own soul, which had frequently flashed through my mind, and died away for want of utterance.

I will work in my own way, according to the light that is in me.