Myself Quotes

I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.

I don't even take myself seriously, so how could I possibly take Hollywood seriously?

In November, 1964 when I was a patient at the Mayo Clinic I though seriously about killing myself.

It's funny, a lot of people think I take myself seriously because I come off so serious sometimes. But it's not that I take myself seriously, I take what I do seriously.

I never took myself too seriously.

TO preach a sermon or edit a newspaper were the two things in life which I always felt I could do with credit to myself and benefit to the world, if I only had the chance.

In my mid 30's, after a decade or so of giving full time to the music thing and finding myself with about $10 in the bank and no assets other than my musical equipment, I realized I needed to get serious about making a living.

My poems were just kind of all over the place. They had no focus, no location, nothing. Kind of a series of images that could have been set anywhere. A lot of the poems were just exercises for myself.

I would love to find myself in a position where I have to decide, 'Gosh, do I want to be on a series?'

I wasn't a big science fiction aficionado, there were a few films like 2001 or Blade Runner that were favorites of mine, but since I started this series I have gained more respect for the genre and become more of a fan myself.

I have learned to like myself for the first time and to have some serenity.

I was concerned about doing a sequel and repeating myself. That was before I read the script.

I didn't want to have to deal with having any moniker or separation between the self that I see and know myself as.

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.

I want people to be inspired that I've always strived for excellence and I've always gone beyond what anybody ever thought I could do, what I thought I myself could do. And I've allowed myself to be inspired, kept my eyes open and my senses open to inspiration around me.

I think I have a sense of mischief and that I can laugh at myself.

I didn't want to lose my sense of myself in my profession.

Because I gave myself - I left school after the second semester of my junior year to pursue a career in music. and I gave myself five years to make it and I made it in three.

I sell myself for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference.

Obama was 200 percent advertising. I promote myself to sell my brands. Because now I am a kind of celeb. I am in a different world than the fashion industry. I am with Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Madonna. I build me as a celebrity.

I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.

It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.

When I was there, something clicked in my head; I found myself interviewing people, searching out facts and figures. Later on I became much more self-conscious of what I was doing.

The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

I was lucky I was raised by parents who gave me a lot of sense of self and a lot of confidence in myself.

I don't consider myself qualified to do a movie about international intrigue - I seldom leave the country.

I've never seen myself as a 'girl driver.' I'm just a driver.

I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it.

It's the first time I've seen myself act, and I can't say I'm impressed.

When people say 'You're so beautiful' it makes me want to kill myself! As an actress you want to be seen for what you do, for the characters you can play, otherwise I'd be a model.