On My Own Quotes

I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.

I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books.

My own books drive themselves. I know roughly where a book is going to end, but essentially the story develops under my fingers. It's just a matter of joining the dots.

I've always had to create my own markets and I've always been at a juncture in my career.

If somebody had started on a remake of French Kiss before I announced my own film, I would have dropped my subject. If someone else starts after me, what am I to do?

Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.

I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history.

I have an opinion. I have my own taste.

I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material - something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.

I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.

Currently I am working on another three books, doing a lot of magazine work, am shooting for fifteen stock agencies, plus my own photo library - all this keeps me quite busy!

Maybe it's egocentric or whatever, but when I'm playing Beethoven, Bach, Hendrix, or whoever it is, in the end, it just feels like my own music and I'm making it up as I'm going along.

It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.

People live by example. I can't tell you, "You can be anything," if I shot my own dreams down or was too afraid to go after them.

I cannot help leaving my books behind me whenever God calls me hence; but in every other respect, my own hands will be my executors.

I'm thrilled to have a completely new audience that I can get from Court TV, without it being my own trial. That was the only other way I would have gotten it.

You haven't seen me in my own ads. You don't see my logo all over my clothes. From the beginning, I wanted the clothes to stand on their own.

When I was little, I didn't like being left on my own in the dark.

I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.

I don't care whether I really exist or don't, whether I'm real or fictional. What I want right now is to be the person who decides my own fate.

It is the sweetest spring within the memory of man. So green, so mild, so beautiful! Ah, what a contrast between nature without and my own soul so torn with doubt and terror!

Really I'm just an actor. The only difference between me and those cats in Hollywood is that I write my own script.

I'm usually working on my own mythology, my own realm of created characters. Stories in mythology inspire me, though I may not be conscious of it.

I am not at home in myself. I am my own stranger.

My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been.

As a viewer, my own work elicits strong emotional reaction from me.

I also do my own processing, so it means a big commitment in lab time.

I rot on the wall, my own Dorian Gray.

I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.

I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid.

I invest in funds myself even though I run my own fund for my daughters.

None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.

I would be virtuous for my own sake, though nobody were to know it; as I would be clean for my own sake, though nobody were to see me.

I would rather eat my own testicles than reform The Smiths, and that's saying something for a vegetarian.

My ultimate goal is to do whatever I want, whenever I want to do it. And that keeps changing. I didn't want to host my own show until I wrote for someone else's.

Since I was not able wholly to subscribe to any one set of beliefs advanced by any 'guru' I had to fall back on my own, however derivative.

Under my contract with Capitol, I have complete freedom to do just about anything I want in my own way.

I had never realized how much I needed the attention of others to confirm my own presence.

Maybe I'm just flying my own little ego ship, but sometimes people resent talent.

Going against the tide has never been difficult for me. It wasn't even a conscious decision but the natural consequence of following my own instinct.

When I'm on my own with my camera, taking these pictures, it feels as if I am in a room of my own, a self-contained world.

I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his

I make my own limits which are drawn according to my own taste.

What is the real origin of my own anger? Is it the ego defending its territory, or is it something that has its source in the desire for the well-being of all?

Ex-D-boy, used to park my Beamer Now look at me, I can park in my own arena

I have to thank my mum for kicking me out at 16 and making me stand on my own two feet - that's how I got here.

I wished I could share my own optimism.

With each one of my films, I'm exploring one of my own issues and I try to expose myself a little in the film.

What I do in my own time, is my business.

I've been so entwined with technology since I was about 15, recording myself and multitracking and producing things on my own.