Myself Quotes
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I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed.
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Every two weeks, I'd get a small pay-check and notice the line where federal and state income taxes were deducted from my wages. At least as often, our drug-addict neighbor would buy T-bone steaks, which I was too poor to buy for myself but was forced by Uncle Sam to buy for someone else.
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I was never a practicing Muslim. But I do consider myself a Muslim.
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The minute your parents die, you stop fighting them. I realized the more I changed my face for films, the more I looked like him. I always liked to disguise myself because I was trying to run away from his image. But all that is not worth it.
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I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it.
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I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.
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I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information.
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Sometimes I Google myself just to see what people are saying. But we all do that. If someone tells you that they don't, then they are lying.
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I don't really want to repeat myself. For the most part, I always want to be doing something new. But there aren't a lot of gritty roles out there for women, and they are so fun to play, everyone wants them.
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I fancy myself at being pretty good at understanding a script and finding the weaknesses, and then making them more radical than they are. People tend to listen to me.
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I was asked to go to Cannes to present Amores Perros. And little did I know that this film would be huge. I saw it for the first time in Cannes, and it was the first time I'd seen myself on such a big screen. And it had a huge impact on me - it was the strangest feeling.
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I consider myself true, which, I know, some people look at as radical, but I enjoy the normalcies of life. I'm not out there trying to transform things, but somehow, by being easy to talk to, and easy to look at, and on a mainstream TV show, I think that I'm helping the public's opinions about transgendered people to change, slowly.
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What's considered ideal in Hollywood is completely different than anywhere else in the world. I don't think you can aspire to it, nor can I. Everybody is retouched, stretched, lengthened, slimmed and trimmed. I could look at a picture of myself from the past and think, 'Why don't I look like that now?' It's because I never have!
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It's great to see that kind of support online. For people to be messaging myself, my nan and the rest of my family, all the support has been great.
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The only two characters I can play convincingly are myself and a dumber and sweeter version of myself.
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I enjoy my work too much to force-feed myself with pressure.
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My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself.
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I have to keep testing myself.
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I never want to put my name on something that I don't love or wouldn't wear myself.
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My favorite thing about acting is that I can play all kinds of different people. Frankly, I don't consider myself a very interesting person, so the characters I play are usually much more fun.
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I definitely keep myself to myself; I don't really go out. If my friends want to see me, they know to come around to my house.
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And being away and not performing for a long time and really connecting with my audience for a long time, I have a great responsibility to myself and to them to do it exactly the way the process was when I was young.
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Grand Slam losses are hard. I treat myself after losses though, I usually go to McDonald's and I have a hamburger and you know, something. Because you know, you just need to be nice to yourself sometimes after the loss.
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In no case can I permit myself to be a candidate of any party or yield myself to any party schemes.
