On My Own Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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 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 rot on the wall, my own Dorian Gray.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I made a decision back in 1978 that, in a trade off for money when I directed Halloween, I would have my name above the title in order to basically brand these movies my own.

I didn't have musical upbringing. I never listened to music growing up, thinking "I want to make my own music". I just listened to music for pleasure.

I'm nobody's deputy. I am who I am. I'm my own person.

I don't take much from my own father, because he was a very austere, quiet, private man who would come home from work, go to his parlour and play Beethoven on his piano.

For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own.

I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother.

I actually write my own music whenever I have a chance. I play guitar and sing.

I just live life on my own terms. And I smile a lot.

O for ten years, that I may overwhelm / Myself in poesy; so I may do the deed / That my own soul has to itself decreed.

I enjoyed your article, but I preferred my own.

I had my own battle tactics.

I have a lot of faith in us. I have a lot of faith in humanity. It's based, though, on my own life; I've come too far to be a pessimist.

I'm not really a guy who draws on things from my own past.

I'd rather believe in my own choice and see it all go wrong than do something I'm not fully convinced of and later feel guilty about it.

In many respects, my work is very enjoyable, for I seem to get on pretty well with the fellows and enjoy the work of instruction as well as my own studies

The web is my unconscious but it's also a wish -- a fantasy of what my own creativity might look like if I weren't constantly impeding its flow.

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.

I study a lot of the greats; I study the current people out now and what people are listening to now. I don't shun anything away; I just check it all out and make my own judgment.

Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.

I learn to pity woes so like my own.

I personally have never made a movie in Hollywood, because I don't want to get up in my own bed and then go to the movie set, and then come home at night to my real life.

I'm perfectly capable of being stupid on my own.

I learned a great deal about myself, and it forced me to be introspective in a way that I'm not typically, but "reporting" on my own life became emotionally exhausting.

When I'm working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I have. It gets me into a rhythm.

I have no place left to live but in my own heart.

You know, I've had a helluva life. Not just the acting part. I've flown in an international balloon race. I've piloted my own plane. I've ridden to the hounds. I've done a lot of exciting things.

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might aspire to, and what I might dare to dream about my world and myself.

I focus on the writing and let the rest of the process take care of itself. I've learned to trust my own instincts and I've also learned to take risks.

Of wanting to pay my own way. I never asked my parents for money. I preferred to steal from my parents than ask them for money.

I would make far more money if every song were my own, but I don't write to fill up the album with my songs.

Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own.

I just started to see the world as it really is and it completely shocked me and changed my opinion on everything.. on life and my values and certainly my own sense of self.

I have my own religious bond with the God in my own head.

You have to be your own person. You can't let people's opinions determine how you think about yourself. There's a difference between identity and self-identity.

My own sense of family, where I came from and what I made for myself is an important part of my life.

Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own.