Myself Quotes
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I did not have any money, so when I came to New York, I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store.
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I'm not going to be doing anything to hurt myself or my fans.
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I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
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I used to keep injuries to myself. It would just make it worse and worse. Now I'm having none of that.
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I myself am also a small investor in Slack, and one can count four to five IM platforms that were launched by Skype alumni alone.
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I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.
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I don't align myself with the West of the Muslim world. I align myself with what I perceive to be just and in accordance with my principles - the principles that I live my life by which are universal principles and that are embodied in the religion of Islam.
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I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead.
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I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
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If I'm in a slump, I ask myself for advice.
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I'll get cast occasionally as sort of the jerk version of myself, and I have fun doing that. But it's really better for everyone if I stay behind the camera.
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I go to Buzzfeed and 'Huff Po,' IMDB, 'Deadline.' And then I just Google myself, like 'Aasif Mandvi in a hat,' and see what comes up.
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I look at myself as an audience member. I still love movies, and I still go and sit in the back of the big dark room with everybody else, and I want the same thrill.
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I acted at school but got very bad parts - things that they'd made up in Shakespeare plays like 'Guard 17' - so I wrote plays and gave myself parts, then I wrote sketches, then I did stand-up. Even in the school nativity I was the emu in the manger.
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But now - look, I have to take care of myself. I work out every day. I'm a dancer. I've always been an athlete, and I'm one of those people who start to go crazy if they don't run or do something.
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When I had cancer, people were surprised at how cheerful and upbeat I was, but I couldn't let myself go to depression - to go there, that defeat would allow everything in. If you look too far into the abyss, you might never come out again. You can stand on the abyss and peep but not give in to sadness.
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I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text.
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I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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I don't go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack.
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Every morning, I can lose myself just by looking at my son.
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So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
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I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.
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I like to think of myself as classy.
