Myself Quotes
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I'm not afraid to go completely over the top. A lot of people are scared to seem silly or to embarrass themselves, and I really don't have that at all - I don't mind making a fool of myself. I like to just have fun and really go for it.
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Glamour is fun! Spending time to get ready isn't about being fussy; it's about taking care of myself.
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You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor.
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I'm somebody who can laugh even at myself. That happens now and again, when I've made a mess of really simple things.
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What I love about my job is challenging myself and finding weird, different roles.
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I needed something to challenge myself a little more. I found fighting, and it completely fit my personality.
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I always felt myself to be an unlucky person like Donald, who is a victim of so many circumstances. But there isn't a person in the United States who couldn't identify with him. He is everything, he is everybody; he makes the same mistakes that we all make.
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When I first started working, I was very aware of the fact that I'd been to university and studied Russian and French and not acting. So when I started working, I'd started working quite young, I felt like it was important to treat myself kind of like an apprentice and do as many different types of things as I could.
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I've never really been a confident person, except from a musical standpoint. I had to push myself early on, but it got easier with each gig.
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I always had to prove myself through my actions. Be a cheerleader. Be class president. Be the editor of the newspaper.
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The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question, and one that I have always tried to ask.
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Everybody struggles with being an oddball. It's tough trying to fit in when you're a kid; then you become an adult and you think, 'I'm just going to be myself and either they accept it or they don't.' But you know what? I like me, and that's the most important thing.
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I'm in no hurry to get old. But when I do, I'll be out to enjoy every last minute. I see myself at 90 in some nursing home, waving my walking stick about as I jive to Gene Vincent records.
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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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Well, I certainly wouldn't want to live in the 18th century myself, or the 19th either, for that matter.
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Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.
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I have not mutated myself in any way.
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I take my dog Tinkerbell seriously. I take my job seriously. But I don't take myself all that seriously.
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When I exercise, I need to connect to myself and see how I'm feeling at the moment because my mood is constantly changing.
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We live in a world where it's difficult to be a woman who is strong and confident, so I like to surround myself with friends that embody that same principle and idea.
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When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
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I'll never get another first premiere again, especially at Sundance. I've just been trying to fully engage myself in everything that's going on, and I hope to see other movies here while I'm here! I really want to!
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I've messed myself up more playing music than when I played football.
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Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.
