Myself Quotes

Everything about my journey to get Spanx off the ground entailed me having to be a salesperson - from going to the hosiery mills to get a prototype made to calling Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. I had to position myself to get five minutes in the door with buyers.

I do know what my family has done for me, but they do need to give me some space to let me be myself. There would be some things I would handle differently.

I realize that when I moved out of my father's house I shocked and frightened him because I needed a room of my own, a space of my own to reinvent myself.

South Africa gives me a perspective of what's real and what's not real. So I go back to South Africa to both lose myself and gain awareness of myself. Every time I go back, it doesn't take long for me to get caught into a very different thing. A very different sense of myself.

For me, I think that I don't like feeling pressure from outside sources. I'd rather put the pressure on myself and push myself to do it as good as I can.

I don't immerse myself in the Internet chatter because it opens you up to a whole source of danger.

It's easier to play a dim character, for me, because I have a natural bent for comedy. It's not intrinsic for me to be crafty, so I would have to go outside for a source of origin. I think of myself as pretty dim.

But I've never considered myself any kind of heartthrob. It sounds painful.

It sounds corny, but I've promised my inner child that never again will I ever abandon myself for anything or anyone else again.

It sounds gross to say that I like myself more. But not everyone likes themselves that much. Especially in the comedy world.

Finally there was a moment when it just hit me. John wouldn't want me to sit on my butt for the rest of my life feeling sorry for myself or sorry for him. As cheesy as it sounds, he would have wanted us to go on.

I sounded like myself. People be saying I sound like Miles or Clifford Brown.

Like I can't cry for myself so I will let this song take all of the things inside I can't let anyone else see and offer it up, as if the sound were some kind of god, and my pain is some kind of sacrifice.

Since I was doing all of it myself, I had to decide where I wanted to go with the songs, how to proceed with the chords, if the sound was alright, and all that detail on my own.

Obviously the biggest change is that it's me by myself. When you don't have another band interpreting your songs or playing them the way that they have, it's bound to sound different.

I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very long one, but the novel as art is a middle-aged art.

I hope this doesn't sound pompous but I don't think of myself as famous, whatever fame I've got has come through what I've done and associations of things I've done.

I knew there were, in myself, the souls of millions of people who lived centuries ago; not just people but animals, plants, the elements, things, even, matter. All of these exist in me.

I'm not a fighter, but in my mind I'm fighting every day. 'What's new? What am I doing?' I'm fighting myself. My soul is samurai. My roots aren't samurai, but my soul is.

As an artist myself, I know what it's like to put your heart and soul into something. You can feel the presence of another person.

I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

For myself, Queer Eye feeds more to my heart and my soul than as a platform for a career.

I had to learn to do everything because I couldn't find another kindred soul. Now you see eighty people listed doing the same things I was doing by myself.

Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.

I kind of consider myself a chameleon in music. I love all sorts of music.

You know, I always think of myself as sort of ready for every criticism.

I don't sort of sit in a chair and pompously feel proud of myself about all the things we might have accomplished.

I have to get a licence to drive a motorcycle to protect myself and the people around me. I am adamant there should be some sort of licensing required to have children.

I've always seen myself as sort of this funky, eclectic artist.

It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.