Myself Quotes
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One drawing demands to become a painting, so I start to work on that, and then the painting might demand something else. Then the painting might say, 'I want a companion, and the companion should be like this,' so I have to find that, either by drawing it myself or locating the image.
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I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue - I couldn't imagine myself seeking that.
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I think feminism is that you just have to stick it all out. I remember this one time when someone interviewed me, and I was young, and they said, 'Do you see yourself as a feminist?' And I was like, 'I don't know. I'm not really comfortable calling myself a feminist.'
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You know, I have a lot of books on my iPad, but when I try to read them, I find myself wandering off to play games. Those are books I'm interested in. I can't imagine what would have happened to me in college if my biology class had been on the same computer as 'Words With Friends' and 'Doom.'
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I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.
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I educated myself. To me, school was boring.
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When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.
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Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.
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Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.
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There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid'. I was who I was. Which isn't to say things haven't happened to me that wouldn't have happened if I wasn't black.
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That's why I'm an actress, to do something completely opposite from myself.
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I really don't like to take the easy way out, if I can help it, on anything I do, I like to really make it a challenge. I don't know how to create by taking the easy routes. I've tried, you know, I've tried to let myself, but I always struggle to compensate.
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I don't think of myself as being disabled, or able-bodied.
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I'm not opposed to putting myself in danger for meaningless comedy.
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I have many good friends, but I tend to keep to myself anyway. It's odd, doing things and having no one to share them with.
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The stage is a place where I can be wholly myself. Even though you're in front of people almost to be judged, it is a place without judgement.
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I just want to be in good things that I want to see, and I want to work with talented people who are smarter than myself.
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I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature.
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Not to flatter myself, but I know that you can influence people's opinion as a musician, and I don't want to.
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Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.
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I immediately felt the need, back when I was a managing tech engineer, to attach myself to Nat Turner. And to research him and learn about him and try to find ways into his life that I could apply to my life.
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I've always believed in myself, and it's such a long competition over two days, you can't worry about what anyone else is doing.
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I worked with Herb Ritts on the Marky Mark shoot, and then Steven Meisel, and then they'd start sending limos for me, and I was like, 'That is so embarrassing. I'm not getting in a stretch limo by myself to go to a shoot.' That whole New York thing of, 'You are fabulous! Turn up to a Meisel shoot in a limo and you're fabulous!'
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As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.
