Myself Quotes
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He said, 'I'm not going to make it, am I?'
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I’m a Virgo; it’s in my sign to be hard on myself.
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Everything that I hate about myself goes away when I was onstage.
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As an impoverished student I used to spend days out in Selfridges, nibbling on samples of free cheese and dousing myself with scent in the perfume department.
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I am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?
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When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?'
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I always have to just be myself. Anything else, I'm not happy, and it comes out musically.
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I get no satisfaction just showing myself in every corner of the world every week.
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I'm doing what I wanted to do since I was a young girl. I pinch myself every day to make sure it's true.
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I've always wanted to push myself and move with the tide. That's just how I am and it's worked for me.
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Once I finished 'Eileen,' I wanted to write more novels. I don't see myself stopping any time soon.
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One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that.
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I never limit myself when it comes to telling stories; I think people can see that in my body of work. It's just about, 'What's a great story? Is it unique? Is it a challenge?'
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What I love about my job is challenging myself and finding weird, different roles.
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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.
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I would never go travelling on my own. Some people like to go backpacking alone, but there's no way I would do that, even if you paid me - I just don't see the point. If I discover something beautiful, for me it's very important to be able to share it with someone and not just see it for myself.
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I definitely have a shareholders' perspective. I'm not doing that altruistically. I'm doing that because it's in my own self interest to do it. I think that's good for my other shareholders because they go along with me: If I do well for myself, then they do well for themselves.
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Whether it's writing songs, being on stage, being interviewed, meeting fans - I just try to be myself, which is kind of exhausting because it almost feels like it never shuts off.
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Both for my wife and myself, the personal friendships that have grown out of scientific contacts with colleagues from many different countries have been an important part of our lives, and the travels we have made together in connection with the world-wide scientific co-operation have given us rich treasures of experiences.
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I've had a very full and lovely career so far, and I can't honestly say that I've ever really found myself in a man's world, struggling for an identity or trying to prove something.
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I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
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I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.
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I'm lucky I live near Whole Foods... so if I'm hungry, I can walk in there and grab something yummy... already made... or make it myself. I love to cook. I make a killer marinara sauce.
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I think of myself as an assistant storyteller.
