Myself Quotes

Fortunately, now I've got myself in a position where things are about story and not money. In my earlier career, it was more about getting my foot in the door and to get enough money to live, to be perfectly honest.

I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true.

I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead.

The first profile piece on myself came about after my Rabbi sent information to the Jewish Chronicle on what I was up to. The story was then picked up by one of the nationals and things grew from there.

I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories.

I'm finding, as I get older, that I'm not much of a believer in redemption. I mean, I believe in redemption in real life - redemption does happen, and it's cool when it does - but I find myself getting leery of my desire for it in stories (especially my own).

I'm a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one likes to tell. Fortunately so, because I wouldn't like to play myself.

I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels.

I wouldn't compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don't feel like I am like any of them. Maybe stories are cool but my story is different from most people's story. I don't like to compare myself to other people, I like to just be me.

I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting.

I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don't describe anything in the society outside.

I still don't consider myself as going Hollywood. I did a movie because the opportunity presented itself and it was fun. When everything stops being fun, I'll go onto something else.

I realised it was only me who was stopping myself from living my life.

When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

I don't think I could live with myself if I stopped trying.

I don't stop eating when I'm full. The meal isn't over when I'm full. It's over when I hate myself.

What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.

If I don't like seeing myself on the screen, I think when I start seeing that, that's when I think I'll stop.

I know that no one can really stop me but myself and that really no one can help me but myself.

I never stop looking for things to try and make myself better.

Right now, I love the fact that I have so many opportunities, but I know this privileged position cannot last. That doesn't mean that I'll stop working. I picture myself as an old actress doing cameos in films with people saying: "Isn't that that Bening woman?"

I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.

No one's calling me for lawyer roles. I still have a lot to do to prove myself.

I consider myself a non-denominational Christian. I grew up in a Bible church and still hold those beliefs very close to me.

I still consider myself a little, fat kid from Hawaii.

I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn't picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn't a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you.

I just play him as myself, I don't ease myself into any role really. I stick a beard on and play me.

But I am a lover of all kinds of art. And I just can't stick to one thing. I guess I could if I made myself, but I'd always be looking the other way, for other things.

I felt that the best I could do for my father, and the best I could do for myself, and my mother and my family was to stay open to the experience, and learn whatever I could at every step of the way as it was going on.

I've always been in the right place and time. Of course, I steered myself there.