Top 1200 Being Myself Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Playing the piano was what I loved doing for myself, but as soon as it became a 'thing' that I was being pushed to pursue by my teachers, I rebelled.

I started making my own short films as a way of being able to give myself something to do and to study my craft.

I can’t wait to have more kids. I love being pregnant. I have such an incredible connection with myself and with my body that I’ve never had before.

I've always done pretty well for myself here in the U.K., but I was never going to be content being a big fish in a small pond.

I see myself being a father, hopefully a husband, but I'm very gun-shy. The older I get, the further the goalpost.

If I stopped making records or performing, I'd probably still be famous for a while being me. But I'd rather have something to show for myself.

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 have chosen music as a profession for myself. I have never felt any kind of burden or pressure on being a part of this industry.

I'm my own toughest opponent. So I talk to myself. I curse at myself. I pump myself up. Whatever it takes to do. I don't really give a damn how it looks really because when I'm in the moment I need to be me.

I punished myself and avoided my reflection in mirrors and any windows. I would see myself reflected back, and I would look away, trying to pretend I didn't exist, because I hated myself so much.

I fancy the romantic image of myself being soothed and inspired by music and the sweet aroma and flickering lights of candles.

I love being directed. I always find it helpful to have someone else's brain in the mix and not just have to rely on myself.

I felt like I got more comfortable on "Idol" when I just started being myself and not trying to be what I thought I had to be.

Honestly, I hate watching myself on TV - I have always hated watching myself and listening to myself.

Submitting myself for awards feels like a weird kind of horn-blowing that's not comfortable for me. I'm really happy when someone likes my work, but I don't like marketing myself, putting myself on display.

I'm nothing special, just an ordinary human being. That's why I always describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk.

When I'm trusting and being myself as fully as possible, everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously.

Someone told me recently, "You're like Oprah, man. People will tell you anything." I'll ask questions and I don't care. If you don't want to tell me, that's fine, but it's not going to be aggressive. I'm open, too. And no judgments. It's a combination of being willing to ask the questions, and being very open myself.

I've never had a huge circle of friends. I can't spread myself that thin and go 100 million miles an hour all the time. I choose to give truly of myself, entirely of myself, to the people I choose to do that with, and I can't do that with everyone.

Actors have to protect each other in a way. The idea of humiliating another actor or being humiliated myself is devastating.

I'm quite happy being myself. I'm a big fan of Jessica Lange and Jeanne Moreau, but I don't want to be anyone else.

What gives me concern in so much of the comment is the implication that the people of Hong Kong have to be given a reward, like children, for being good last year, and bribed, like children, into being good next year. I myself repudiate this paternalistic, indeed colonialist, attitude as a gross insult to our people.

I'm flattered to be called a sex symbol and, on occasion - if I've had a nice bottle of Beaujolais - I can imagine myself really being one.

I consider myself to be an inverse paranoid. I always operate as if everything is part of a universal plot to enhance my well-being.

There are a lot of things about fame that are not conducive to being curious. It's been important for me to cloister myself off.

I felt like I got more comfortable on 'Idol' when I just started being myself and not trying to be what I thought I had to be.

I've told people that I don't see myself living very long. That really upsets them, but I'm just being honest.

I regard myself as being the final filter so everything that ends up in the movie is there because it's something that I think was cool.

That's what I love. Not being interrupted, sitting in a car by myself and listening to music in the rain. There are so many great songs yet to sing.

I've been blessed with enough wealth that I can make a film myself up to a certain budget. So one way I thought I would reinvent myself was just to make these very small, personal films that I've financed myself.

I, myself, have had many failures and I've learned that if you are not failing a lot, you are probably not being as creative as you could be -you aren't stretching your imagination.

I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.

I love the idea that I have the power to look for the projects I can put myself into, but I'm still at that level of just being happy to have a job.

I pride myself in being able to survive just about any situation on stage now. I can handle pressure.

I find myself being attracted to dudes all the time. I'm like, 'Wow, that's a beautiful man.' There's no shame in it; that's how I feel.

He kissed me hard and I kissed him back harder, like it was the end of an era that had lasted all of my life. Being near Tom and Doug at night kept me from having to say to myself I am not afraid whenever I heard a branch snap in the dark or the wind shook so fiercely it seemed something bad was about to happen. But I wasn't out here to keep myself from having to say I am not afraid. I'd come, I'd realized, to stare that fear down, to stare everything down, really - all that I'd done to myself and all that had been done to me. I couldn't do that while tagging along with someone else.

I set a goal for myself in being an actor and moving out to L.A., and I really felt I had achieved it when I landed 'Shameless.'

My purpose is to acknowledge the wonder of being part of Creation. Though I myself don't create anything, I make from what has been created.

A friend got attacked outside a nightclub just for being deaf. I stuck up for him but ended up getting in a bit of a trouble myself. I played with a tag at Stocksbridge. I had a little curfew. Luckily, it didn't stop me playing football. Being put on a tag, I could have lost playing football again.

Of course, I have to consider that I've written a lot of prose, but I do in my heart think of myself as being originally, and still primarily, a poet.

People will come at me telling me to wear this or wear that. If I don't like it, I don't like it. They couldn't pay me to wear it. If it's something I can rock with, I'll rock it. I'm more interested in being completely authentic to me. In my opinion, being myself is making a statement.

My importance to the world is relatively small. On the other hand, my importance to myself is tremendous. I am all I have to work with, to play with, to suffer and to enjoy. It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of, but of my own. I do not intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and I find that the fewer illusions I have about myself or the world around me, the better company I am for myself.

I don't weigh myself. I just go by if my clothes fit. I try not to participate too much in the incredible amount of wasted energy that women have around dealing with food. I just feel like being healthy is sort of a job requirement to be on TV, and being a writer is so much coping with fatigue and stress, and you just eat. You eat to stay awake.

I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.

I haven't talked much about being an ovarian cancer survivor because I don't really want to define myself that way.

I've been so used to being supported by musicians, and I don't class myself as a particularly adept musician on instruments. I think I'm a songwriter.

After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident.

I think I am looking as an actor to find ways to push myself into places I haven't been before as a human being.

If by the liberty of the press were understood merely the liberty of discussing the propriety of public measures and political opinions, let us have as much of it as you please: But if it means the liberty of affronting, calumniating and defaming one another, I, for my part, own myself willing to part with my share of it, whenever our legislators shall please so to alter the law and shall chearfully consent to exchange my liberty of abusing others for the privilege of not being abused myself.

I went to England for five months when I was in high school, by myself, so I did experience a bit of being the fish out of water.

I gave up myself, but myself did not give up me; and so, I am still myself!

I'm surrounded by freaks. Am I weirder than the rest of them? Ultimately I've learned to pride myself on being quirky.

'Honey' was the first song I wrote where I was really enjoying myself again after questioning the idea of being an artist.

I just try to go to the pitch and finish the game not being able to complain to myself knowing I have given everything.

Even I doubt myself sometimes. I mean, there's days that I get down on myself, and I doubt myself.

That's what I love. Not being interrupted, sitting in a car by myself and listening to music in the rain. There are so many great songs yet to sing

I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!

I proved myself in Barcelona, and after I proved myself in Germany, I wanted to prove myself in England.

Being teased and losing my self value eventually ended up inspiring me to be a better version of myself.

But nothing will persuade me that the mere fact of being in a place is enough in itself to justify the effort of getting out of bed to become a tourist, or even a traveller. I don't have the slightest wish to be intrepid. I don't want to prove myself to myself or anyone else. I don't care if no one thinks me brave or hardy. I have no concern at all that I did not have whatever it is I should have had to take a dive out of a plane or off a building. None of that matters to me in the least.