Myself Quotes
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It's hard for me to take care of myself, let's put it that way. I am my last priority.
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I have to remind myself constantly to not be antisocial, because I stay to myself a lot. I'm a lot more introspective than my characters.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
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I really am a feminist, though I never used to call myself that.
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When I look back at my past mistakes, I realise that there were times when I wasn't myself, and that's why certain styles did not work well for me.
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If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would be no limit.
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I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.
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I'm a comedian who got into movies, so I don't really think of myself as an actor.
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I don't take it very seriously. You shouldn't let your success get to your head or failure get to your heart. This is most commonly said. But people don't really practise it. I don't see myself as a celebrity; it has not sunk in. I just see myself as someone doing a nine-to-six job like a techie.
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The distance between number one and number two is always a constant. If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you. That is a big lesson. I cannot just expect the organization to improve if I don't improve myself and lift the organization, because that distance is a constant.
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The condition of rage is one in which I find myself starting my day - once I see the news headlines.
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For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
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I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
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I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn't want that for myself. Like I said, when I was 14 years old, I decided to quit. I didn't ever want to do it again.
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After building most of Mint.com's prototype by myself, I talked to anyone and everyone I knew about Mint. It's counter-intuitive, because you might fear someone will steal your idea, but it's the only way to make connections, be sure you're on the right track, and provide a solution for an audience broader than yourself.
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One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.
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For 'Chapters', I decided to let go of my insecurities, found myself some talented R&B producers, and worked with them.
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I realized I didn't want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant and I found myself constantly hanging out in the kitchen.
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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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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.
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I've always tried to push myself technically and to push myself visually. That's been part of the journey.
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I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.
