Be Myself Quotes

My mother and my sisters - five girls - were crazy about glamour and Hollywood movies. I styled myself on Veronica Lake and Marlene Dietrich.

When I'm writing fiction, I read nonfiction or biographies. Now I'm watching very old movies or old foreign films. I don't immerse myself in whatever's going on in whatever area I'm working in.

My tunnel vision work ethic is very hard to come by, I believe. I have had an unwavering faith in myself and my career for as long as I can remember.

Everything that I design I would wear myself.

If I had to design a career for myself, I would have done comedy.

I don't design for myself. I design something keeping in mind that it has to please a lot of women.

The point is that I don't design stuff for myself. I'm a toolmaker. I design things that other people want to use.

I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.

I can trust my friends These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow.

The harder I train every day on the track and in the gym, the more trust I gain in myself.

I'm a terrible actor. I'm still learning. When I first started, I wish I knew then to trust myself more, really. I was in a terrible panic in the early part of my career.

I trust myself, the way I prepare. I feel like I know what I'm doing.

As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself.

The things that interest me are less to do with perhaps finding myself and more to do with surviving and mercy and forgiveness.

I find myself listening to Talk Talk on repeat while I'm doing gardening in upstate New York. Their music is so languid, and I just love his voice.

I like to make jokes I consider myself a funny person. I just think making jokes about people who are in a situation beyond their control is not funny to them or their families.

I use so much of myself in everything I do. I think every actor does because you have no one else to go to but yourself and your own imagination.

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it's not imagination. It's just a way of watching.

I think of myself as a little kid, and I had a wild imagination, but it was something that was encouraged and supported, which helped steer me into the arts.

I consider myself very fortunate indeed to have created a character which has captured the imagination and enthusiasm of so many children worldwide. They are my family, and Spot belongs to them all.

I don't know much about politics, and I don't want to know. That's why I rarely involve myself in politics.

I'm very hard on myself. Sometimes too hard on myself. When I lost in the Wimbledon finals, I was so sad, I cried. I had the runner-up trophy! It's still a great accomplishment, but I was so mad.

I remembered myself as an unpopular and rather sad kid.

I feel most at home when I'm alone. That's not sad. It's just I feel closest to source and connection when I'm by myself.

I don't consider myself a celebrity. That would be kind of sad.

I don't want to see myself as this sad, disabled girl. I know that. I don't want other people to see me as that, either.

It's not like I force myself to think of sad things, but... it's more that I make music because it makes me happy.

With myself, how to pass time becomes sometimes the question - unavoidably, though it strikes me as a thing unspeakably sad in a life so short as ours.

Apple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology I myself own an iPhone.

I'm trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.

I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.

As an actress, I have put myself out there as an independent black woman, a single mom, a go-getter, a hustler who isn't afraid to survive.

My mom, Nellie, got me a rosary at church. I don't use it to pray before a competition. I'll just pray normally to myself, but I have it there in case.

My mom lived with me until I started making enough money to support myself. I was asking her to leave the entire time. I'd been ready to move out since I was, like, 14.

I'm probably the least harsh on myself, and I try not to scrutinize everything about my body. As a new mom, it is what it is, and we just have to do our best.

I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help, not even Mom's.

The fact that I'm very close with my past relationships is something I pride myself on. My mom is still close to her first husband. It's nice to be able to enjoy someone in a different form.

There are big parts of my life that I don't share. I don't share myself eating dinner with my family. I don't talk about who I'm dating. That's private that's me.

I need nothing from my companion. No money, no financial security, no emotional support, nothing. All I want is the freedom to be myself.

As an educator myself, I understand the profound effect that good teachers and a quality education have on the lives of our young people.

I don't look at myself as a hero or smart person. I have a seventh-grade education, but I've had a lot of fun.

I myself owe everything to French books. They developed in my soul the sentiments of humanity which had been stifled by eight years of fanatical and servile education.

Nothing energizes me more than to burrow myself under a pile of received wisdom and emerge triumphant with the truth.

I don't even possess a car. I ride in auto-rickshaws because I like to be a part of the masses. I don't want to single myself out as someone up and above.

I bought a lot of rubbish things that kids buy: skateboards and clothes and typical teenage stuff. And, as soon as I could, I wasted a lot of money on cars - BMW's mostly - for myself and my family.

Whenever I made money I invested in myself... I bought whatever I needed to make my career better. I never really spent money on other stuff, like buying expensive cars.

If anything I consider myself non-violent, I'm from the hippy era, peace, love, groovy.

Sometimes people have questioned whether I was making fun of the industry or just at myself. I'm just trying to raise a smile. Clothes aren't meant to be worshipped at a church altar.

It's really hard to smile when you play. As a performer, if I ever find myself focusing, it's like, 'Oh no - orchestra face!' It's not attractive at all, so I have to focus on smiling.

I can't ever see myself playing the romantic lead because that's not me I'm not that girl.