Myself Quotes

I don't see myself as a famous person.

I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.

When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

I call myself a teacher because they want me to call myself a teacher, but actually, what I'm doing is I'm studying.

They say that people teach what they need to learn. By adopting the role of happiness teacher, if only for myself, I was trying to find the method to conquer my particular faults and limitations.

I saw myself as a teacher's pet but with a little of Ed Haskell mixed in. I was the teacher's pet, but that didn't mean that I was trying to pull one over.

When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher, ' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture.

I have taught some master classes and things at my alma mater and sometimes at my kids' school. I will go in and talk to the theater students. I wouldn't really call myself a teacher.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, 'I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.'

There were times when chemo would eat my body, but I told myself that I have the strength and courage to win and come out stronger.

For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer. And 'Wicked' was about harnessing all that strength.

I can't distract myself enough here, for sketches to a new opera are constantly buzzing around in my head, to the extent that I need all my strength to wrest myself from them.

Of course I would never compare myself to someone who actually went through a war, but I definitely matured shooting 'The Pacific.' I'm more calm and I have more patience.

Towards my husband, I often fail to show interest in his affairs and amusements, not rousing myself to respond when I'm tired or concerned with other things, forgetting he is very patient with me.

I wouldn't really call myself a feminist. I obviously want equality and equal opportunities to the men.

For forty years, I have devoted myself to the cause of the people's revolution with but one aim in view - the elevation of China to a position of freedom and equality among the nations.

I saw myself as an outsider as a teen. I was home-schooled and got my G.E.D. when I was 16 I wasn't interested in high school at all and figured that college might be more entertaining.

I consider myself a writer. I always wanted to act, and as a teen, I studied acting devotedly. Eventually, I got writing work, but very little acting work.

I treat every album as a new beginning, so I'm asking myself, 'What is pop music now? What are people consuming?' and I take these things into effect.

I love to act and put on a show, but you're playing a character all the time. For music, it's really just me being myself.

I can't create music if I'm wearing a mask and not being myself, and that was the problem with The Czars.

The finest lesson I've learned with age is that all I need is a small team of comrades who inspire me, try not to judge me, and remind me when I'm judging myself.

I ask myself why I do it. Maybe it's to prove I'm still around. It takes a lot out of my body. I'm not an NBA player anymore. At my age, very few people can handle it.

I had dance training from a very young age, 3 or 4... It taught me how to present myself, about preparation and working in an ensemble, and it's something that carries with me to this day.

I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself.

I don't belong to anyone else but myself. I have to make my own decisions. Happiness is defined by me.

I'm not a guy who needs to drink coffee or anything to get myself going in the morning. I wake up, and I'm full of energy.

In the morning, before I leave the house, I say five things I love about myself, like 'You have really pretty eyes.' That way I can go out into the world with that little bit of extra confidence.

Every morning I tell myself, 'Today has to be productive' - and then something happens that prevents me from writing.

I like to remind myself that every morning I'm making a choice to live.

If I'm going to have baked goods in the morning, the rule is that I have to make them myself.

If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.

Every morning, I make myself a cappuccino with a drawing in the foam. I post them to Instagram with the hashtag #christiecappuccino.

I started playing poker in 2003 during my pregnancy, to distract myself from my awful morning sickness. For months all I did was cry and play Texas Hold'em.

On a beautiful clear Sunday morning, myself and James Nesbitt jumped out of a plane together at 18, 000 feet.

It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

I've always been a family man and count myself as one of those who are lucky to have the comfort of a family.

It is good to learn from the ancients. I'm a bit of an ancient myself. They had a lot of time to think about architecture and landscape.

I've never joined any organization - not even the ones I've organized myself. I prize my own independence too much.

First and foremost, Scotland is my home, and I do consider myself Scottish, but I also feel very British, and I hope that Scotland stays within the Union. I have a real concern about independence.

I've worked very hard at understanding myself, learning to be assertive. I'm past the point where I worry about people liking me.

I don't take roles that are 'just another role.' I'm interested in learning more about myself and about humanity. So it should change you by the time it's done.

One thing I learned particularly at Yale was how to work with others. Having studied so long trying to master myself, the biggest challenge was learning about the other person's work.

I genuinely enjoy the process of making colourful, delicious food. But I do allow myself an occasional piece of chocolate - today I had a pastry. If I fancy something, I'll have it.

My goal was to be able to be alone without food, sugar, phone, men, TV, anything and to feel O.K. about myself.

I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.

I like to think of myself as the host at a party, and, if everybody is having a good time, so much the better.

I find this wave of super-skinny women scary. I'm not going to lie to you, I've got to drag myself down to the gym like everybody else. But I look at the red carpet sometimes and it's like a pageant.

I am very much in favor of women's rights, being a woman myself, and I support intelligent, successful, independent working women.