Myself Quotes
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I've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't.
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I had to learn to value myself before I could expect to be valued by others
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Expressing myself through language was always something that I had had to learn to do more so than others.
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I was a bar-back, which is the person who cleans the bathrooms at the end of the night in the bar, and a cook. I had kind of given up. I was into backing other people up. Music was something I just did on the side and I don't think I had the energy to pimp myself out, like call people up and ask them to book me to play.
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I learnt early to have little expectation so I protected myself from ever feeling greatly disappointed.
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I don't care about making a fool of myself on stage anymore. I don't care what people think.
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America to me is so varied and exciting. I always feel nostalgia for the place I'm not in, and then I get there and find myself in a traffic jam going into the Lincoln Tunnel, and I think, 'God, why was I romanticizing this part of the country?' I think it has to do with the romantic, unrealistic temperament.
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In the spring of 1929, I returned to the United States. I was homesick for this country. I had learned in my student days a great deal about the new physics. I wanted to pursue this myself, to explain it, and to foster its cultivation.
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I'm a pretty cliche actor in that I hate watching myself on film.
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It's much better to wreak havoc on a show and be a maniac than promote myself. Plugs and anecdotes aren't really in line with my beliefs. Besides, if someone sees me on a morning show and thinks, 'That's not funny; this guy is crazy,' then I don't want them to come to the show anyway.
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I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker.
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I don't want to be taller; I want to be myself.
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I've since become really good at overwhelming myself.
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I enjoy thinking myself into other times and places. I don't like some of the conventions of the 'historical novel', but I think there's a way of doing it that has a lot of merit.
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The best work I can do is to take myself as much as I can out of it and get it as simple as I can.
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I kind of treat myself like the audience. I don't like being lectured.
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I don't like seeing myself on television. I don't like it.
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I don't mind if somebody comes up to me and shakes my hand, but if I'm in the middle of a restaurant and somebody asks me for a picture, I can be a jerk and say no, or I can say yes and draw more attention to myself, which is exactly the opposite of what I want.
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I've been urged by people forever to try and start a real Rock Hall of Fame. I've had some very, very preliminary discussions about doing it. Obviously, I can't do it myself, but there are a lot of people interested in that.
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I really just want to continue to challenge myself. And I want to continue to grow as an artist. I never want to stop.
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I do like to make things difficult for myself and my team, just from taking on a challenge, if you like.
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I'm going to try and model myself after Kurt Russell and Jodie Foster.
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Technology is a nerdy field. That's why I called myself a 'geek.' It requires a lot of training and encouragement at a very young age.
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The hardest thing as somebody who does both is - and I'm very serious as an actor, and I consider myself very serious as a musician, engineer, music artist - is learning that it's OK to be versatile.
