Own Quotes

Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to say something. On occasions you can find yourself on a film set where the person who is wearing the director's hat is only trying to justify his position.

It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

I'm very happy with the way I look. I wake up some morning, catch myself in the bathroom mirror, and go, 'hey girl, you're alright'. But on the other hand, I find the website stuff, and the polls, something completely removed from my own personal life. You can't take anything like that too seriously, otherwise you'd end up in the loony bin.

A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.

To be happy, it first takes being comfortable being in your own shoes. The rest can work up from there.

All I can go on is my own value system.

I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, "You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit." As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.

I'm very lucky that I get to make a living out of acting, which is what I love, and the level of attention I receive has sometimes been my own fault and sometimes not been.

We are the hero of our own story.

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don't have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don't adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

Women are like elephants. I like to look at 'em, but I wouldn't want to own one.

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

I haven't been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

I wouldn't say no to other kinds of musical opportunities. I guess that it just depends on what it was or what it required me to do, and if I felt that it compromised my own soul.

Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day.

You do the work and you want people to see it; but, um while I'm doing the work, the result doesn't matter at all to me. Ultimately, I don't, I don't care whether the film is - you know - some big giant box-office bonanza and I don't care if its a complete flop. To me, when a film gets made and it's actually finished it's a success. They're all a success in their own way.

Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.

I don't need the Prince Charming to have my own happy ending.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

At times I experience hardship in trying to find the proper point of balance between traditional things and my own personality.

It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

I love having a boyfriend but need to be secure on my own first.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.