On My Own Quotes

In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.

I wasn't trying to do a play or do what Kevin Spacey did. I was trying to do my own thing with it.

My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons.

Ever since I was old enough to remember my own actions, I realized that when I am passionate about something, I must do it 130%, regardless of what other passions I may already be pursuing.

Go ahead without me, I'll find my own way.

What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can.

I can't even tolerate my own playing on electric keyboards. It's not about the musical ideas - the sound itself is toxic. It's like eating plastic broccoli.

I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.

I personally call one of my fans every month. I answer all of my own fan mail.

All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.

I hope to God that the inner strength that will vindicate my deeds will in good time spring forth from my own people. I have done as I had to on the prompting of my inner voice.

I couldn't survive my own pessimism if I didn't have some kind of sunny little dream.

Every day I beat my own previous record for the number of consecutive days I’ve stayed alive.

I am my own biggest critic ... I'm constantly criticizing myself, constantly trying to find ways to better myself and ... compete and, you know, just be the best.

I set it off with my own rhyme / cause I'm as ill as a convict who kills for phone time

Thankfully, God's plans also happen to be much better than my own.

my mind is a world in itself, which I have peopled with my own creatures.

God grant you all your desires and accept my own hearty thanks for all your attention to me. Although indeed, those attentions have tried me more than death can now terrify me.

My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?

Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.

My own heart let me more have pity on; let Me live to my sad self hereafter kind, Charitable; not live this tormented mind With this tormented mind tormenting yet.

I have never sung a whole song on my own before and I am not the best dancer in the world, but I would rather try and fall than not not try at all.

Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.

My own brain. When I get it out of the way, I'm fine.

I don't owe Don King anything. I got things with my own sweat and blood. I don't know if I'll be associated with Don but I won't be a slave or puppet for him.

Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, I have no desire to make my own toxins.

I follow my own head. And if Im determined to do something, then Ill make sure that I make it happen.

I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have dragged through I don't know how many consciences.

Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is...the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may simply be my own.

I have always endeavoured to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion.

Sometimes I pretend not to look at my own characters, because that's like different people getting off with your girlfriend or something.

That was just my own personal program: I didn't want to get too high over the good moments because I didn't want to be saddened and depressed when things didn't go as I had planned.

I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.

I try to define myself through my own choices rather than just accepting society's kind of you're that, you're that, let me put you in a box kind of thing.

I'm not going to spend two years on a film or four years on an opera if I don't feel like I can put my own self into it. That doesn't mean it has to be about myself.

I never really followed the traditional route when it comes to what people probably expect as a solo artist goes, but that's just me. It's my own creative output and it's my expression.

I think that this stage in my life is really, for a lot of reasons, pretty incredible. Being a solo artist and trying to take these bold steps on my own.

Anyway, I've never been captain in 16 years in the NHL. But that didn't stop me being a leader in my own way.

I like filming in the UK - I'll sleep in my own bed, which I'm really happy about.

The reason why men who mind their own business succeed is that they have so little competition.

Learn your craft well. Take care of your own business. Success (popularity) is fleeting for most, but longevity lies in a quality craft with integrity. Oh, and don't take yourself too seriously.

I love the classics but there are many new ideas to be made into reality. I'd rather be concerned with my own thing. There are many masters of classical piano so I'll leave it to them.

What I particularly liked was that, coming from California and not being involved in the New York scene, I developed my personal way, in my own way, at my own pace.

I had a dove and the sweet dove died; And I have thought it died of grieving: O, what could it grieve for? Its feet were tied, With a silken thread of my own hands' weaving.

Or - perhaps - I should just worry about my own behavior and let others be who they are.

My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946.

...which causes me to wonder, my own purpose on so many days as humble as the spider's, what is beautiful that I make? What is elegant? What feeds the world?

I make my own time. I make my own terms. I cannot see how God or Nature can ever get the start of me.

I am definitely not like the hottest young actress, the most beautiful or whatever. I have my own thing going.

I write every morning. Two hours. Then I take a break and become my own secretary for a few hours. If I am "hot" I write in the afternoon and at night too.