On My Own Quotes

I think for a couple of years I was believing that I was doing it all on my own and I wasn't.

Yes, I do feel the world revolves around me. After all, I am the main character of my own life.

My music is my way to rearrange the world according to my own hopes.

I always hang up my own dresses. It is a good lesson in appreciation and in always remembering that you're part of a team, not outside of the team, but with the team and on the team.

I tell a lot of young performers, 'Go get in trouble. Go commit yourself to something you're not sure you can do.' And I followed my own advice.

I am senting many books for endorsement purposes, which enables me to stay relevant in my own field, and I have people that help me decide which ones I should read and endorse.

I'm used to having big movie cameras in my face, I pretend that they're not there. But I actually like being on my own, I like being in the space.

I'm absolute attacking my own instinct for politeness, but I think I admire artists who just speak out or who are strong, so it's very hard.

Like most severely overweight people, I had to hit a rock-hard bottom before I'd take responsibility for the consequences of neglecting my own health.

Acting can be a very reactive profession. Acting is a fantastic thing, and it's my life, but writing is also part of me too, so I did it and in so doing took responsibility for my own life.

In London I had pear trees in my back garden, so I'd make my own pear and green tomato chutney.

When my own writing needs a perk, I open Zukofsky and read from "A" - particularly sections "22" and "23." It can be opaque, but I love the intensity.

That's not very attractive behavior, Bella." he said. " Forgiveness is divine. "Mind your own buisness.

It's important for me to be free and know I'm acting for myself. I do things because I want to, and that's important. You want to be your own person.

Don't be afraid," I said, "We belong together." I was immediatly overcome by the truth of my own words.

Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it's a masterpiece.

I'm my own "ideal reader" in the sense that I write novels that I would want to read.

My own personal experience has become more first-hand.

I do write my own music, and I also have been doing a lot of non-Beatle covers, just singing whatever I want to sing, the way I want to sing. But it can be hard to find the time to do that.

Comedians don't get Oscars, so I gave up on that a long time ago. And I can't really speak about the Oscar-worthiness of my own performance.

I'm very bad at watching anything. I'm bad at going to theaters; I can't watch my own stuff; I watch a lot of sports.

I never went to film school, so I just sort of learned on my own.

I stopped reading reviews about my own movies. I read stuff about other people's movies.

So just to be truthful to my own sensibility, I need to acknowledge that the season is not all joy and light for a lot of people. It's tough - environmentally, emotionally, spiritually.

If you have a lot of nature in your city, it becomes a more enjoyable place. That's my own feeling about it.

If I don't have fun, it's my own damn fault.

My own view is that one cannot be religious in general any more than one can speak language in general; at any given moment one speaks French or English or Swahili or Japanese, but not 'language.

I'm sick of people lying to me for my own good. Because really it's mostly for their own good.

Maybe everyone is just trying to protect me by lying to me. I don't care. I'm sick of people lying to me for my own good.

After so many changes, I realized I'd better cling to my own family and to what I've got right here.

I've produced my own films for twenty years now - it means I have to talk to less people.

I'm not a very good predictor in any area of art, particularly my own. I don't know how to evaluate that.

It could be thousands of people or just two, but I can't hide behind anything when I am singing my own songs.

My life is a discipline, a prison: I live for my own work, without which I am nothing.

I was my own woman. The next step was to find the proper sort of man.

There's a kind of mystery to our being and from my point of view, regarding my own parents and their parents, I'd as soon let it lie than find out who my mother's father was.

I think, as a writer, I'm in my own head.

I must make a choice every time I speak a sentence in English. I try to choose the happier way of saying things, so that my own words will not weigh me down like stones.

I look at the deejay thing as something - I'm good at it because I have my own music. I have enough rhythm to blend at this point.

I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.

I just can't see myself as a trophy wife. I can't imagine not having my own life.

I am my own worst enemy. My friends and family will say, Youve got everything going for you right now, and I say, Oh yes, but! Which is not a good way to be.

People wonder whether I got my presenting job as a result of my own abilities or because of Gordon, which is a little unfair.

I was reading some complex books in my own youth-and no, I didnt always understand every word, let alone every concept-but I got the main thrust, which was like a lifeline in a fluctuating world.

People think I am America's party girl, which is just stupid. I have done 24 movies and I am creating my own TV show.

I just try to get out of my own way because if anyone is their own worst enemy, it's usually you.

I am trying to do my own thing, but there will always be comparisons, even if I don't agree with them.

I go back to December, turn around and make it alright I go back to December, turn around and change my own mind I go back to December all the time

I've made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I'm allowed to write my own music.

I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.