Myself Quotes

Originally I considered myself a singer.

The question is not... if art is enough to fulfill my life, but if I am true to the path I have set for myself, if I am the best I can be in the things I do. Am I living up to the reasons I became a singer in the first place?

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

When I was a kid, I needed to sing because it makes me feel good about myself. It makes me feel good, period.

I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them.

At only 20 years old I got married. I was still a kid myself, but in those times, if you got someone pregnant, you had no choice but to get married. So I left school and the only thing I could do was sing.

From my father, I learned the importance of working sincerely at things to which I had committed myself, and to persevere untiringly even in the face of little progress.

Since I became a dancer, I have felt much better about myself.

I am not very good at expressing myself in a simple way so it can create mis-understandings and I hate that.

I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.

The best work I can do is to take myself as much as I can out of it and get it as simple as I can.

My running was very simple; it was out of myself.

I would quite like to do a different accent or play something so different from myself because Olivia, the character I play in this film, is similar to me.

More labels should be like that. Instead of putting these records out myself, I should have just signed with them, but they probably don't like my music (laughs).

I've got one outlet now - music - and it's great to be able to sign someone that excites me. I'd like to also be able to do that with the scripts I get or books or TV shows... I'm not going to limit myself.

I want to explore more sides of humanity and myself. That's what acting is about.

I'm a female but I have a masculine side and I'm not going to negate that part of myself.

Actually I don't choose to expose myself in public. I choose to compete; the other side just comes with the package.

There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.

I feel sick if I have to do something for the money. I can't breathe. I'm not proud of myself.

I don't do any songs that I'm sick of now - sometimes even songs that I request. If I'm sick of 'em I don't do 'em even for myself.

I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.

Being an actress, I find myself people-watching and I can be quite shy.

The men I find myself attracted to are the ones who don't say anything and are quite shy.

At 6 years old, the ice became a place for me to express myself. Because I was so shy off the ice, it became my safe haven, with music and freedom and self-expression. That was my emotional outlet.

I think - I think I've always been kind of - I used to think of myself as a piece of rubber when I was a kid because I was kind of very shy and very - very emotional about things, but I kind of would bounce back.

I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows.

I feel like I've been way overexposed in the press. I'd rather play shows and represent myself in person.

I do comedy shows. I make fun of myself, first of all.

It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.