On My Own Quotes

I never get sick of writing my own stories because there's a certain comfort in knowing you will never run out of material. It's relaxing, actually, to write.

With 'Invincible', I wanted to create my own version of the Marvel or DC universe, with my own heroes and villains.

The thing I believe in most in the world is my own fallibility, so I am willing to believe that I may be wrong too.

As a parent, the only thing I am absolutely certain of is my own fallibility.

I’ve sometimes thought that it’s only by recalling that desperate devotion my kids once felt for me that I can maintain my own desperate devotion in the face of their adolescent sneering.

I refuse to accept as guilt the fact of my own existence.

I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams. I'm O.K. with that so long as my songs are my own. No one can take my songs away from me.

I seek advice from my wife, who has been with me for 20 years and knows me better than I even know my own self.

Alongside my own deep personal faith, I am a follower, as well, of our civic religion. I am a big believer in the separation of church and state.

I'm inspired by my own children, how full they make my heart. They make me want to work to make the world a little bit better. And they make me want to be a better man.

I've been keeping my own naughty and nice list for Washington.

What I've seen in my own life is that when I get something important done it's because of a lot of other people - some who get credit, some who don't.

I learned always to trust my own deep sense of what I should do, and not just obediently trust the judgment of others - even others better than I am.

Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.

my own relationships with the animals in my life are absurdly complex: Some I love, some I eat, and the scraps left over from the ones I eat, I feed to the ones I love.

I have my own sheep and I literally sheer the sheep and knot sweaters for friends and family from scratch.

My own father had died of Alzheimer's. George [Mitchell] had been also, I think, deeply moved by a similar tragedy.

I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.

When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.

I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can become a prisoner of my own mind.

With my own music, I try to get away from things that are familiar and things that would be easy for me to go to.

I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years.

I feel I have to play a role in the transformation of my thoughts. Music is the most powerful way for me to do that, through my own music, through listening to other people's music.

When I play my own music, or when I play new music, there's much more stress and intensity of thinking about how I'm going to make it work!

I often find it easier to be teaching or giving to others, and often struggle with the place of my own pleasure and joy.

I used to be so hard on myself. So hard on myself. Just my own worst critic to the nth degree. Absolutely undermining my confidence in every moment. Bad tape in my head all the time.

I'm terrible in the kitchen. I was mostly raised by my mother and she could cook, so I never perfected that skill. If I had to count on my own cooking to survive, I'd probably be thinner.

I can change the world With my own two hands Make a better place With my own two hands Make a kinder place.

All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome

I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at that age I did; I was out working and out of home at 15, paying my own way in the world.

Zoolander was more of my own sensibility.

I recently watched that Lucie Arnaz-produced documentary [Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie, 1992] about her parents [Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz], and I saw so much of my own childhood there.

My own parents were touchy-feely.

The only genre I have any problem with is musicals, but that's just my own tastes it's nothing to do with the films.

My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.

I grew intoxicated with my own eloquence.

One of the most empowering things about being a self-employed actor is also one of the hardest things; I get to set my own goals.

People who have come from nothing and started their own business or opened up a whole new niche in a particular industry, they truly inspire me.

I always have problems with seeing how our new stuff relates to our old stuff - I'm better at seeing long lines in other people's music than in my own.

I really didn't care. I'd do something to somebody and walk in front of them the next day like it never happened. I had very very low value on my own life.

I think, in my own state, I can tell you that people do want to hear a serious discussion on serious issues.

My own view on religion is . . . It helped in early days to fix the calendar, and . . . to chronicle eclipses . . . These two services I am prepared to acknowledge.

I mind my own business. And I don't eat junk food.

More than the sound of my own beating heart, I miss the sound of a ticking clock. Time passes. It must pass.

Through books and photographs, I saw a world that was not my own - and I realized that there was another world.

But my activities have been pretty much focused in the last almost 30 years on the recovery, of my own recovery, the understanding for my family of my recovery.

I've had the same car for five years - it's a convertible Jag which I bought with my own money. It's very Austin Powers.

In terms of my own behavior and activity, the funny thing about regrets and saying "I'm sorry," is that there's so much I would do differently and want to do differently moving forward.

I don't ever want to believe my own press clippings, good or bad.

I actually enjoy being on my own, because it allows me to do what I do.