Myself Quotes
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I'm a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one likes to tell. Fortunately so, because I wouldn't like to play myself.
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As a child, I amused myself by making up stories. I'd lie in bed when I was supposed to be sleeping and imagine other lands where people were doing fascinating things. By fifth grade, I knew I wanted to be a writer, but it took several more decades to really find my way as an author.
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If I start feeling down I'll gorge myself on pasta. That usually does the trick. It's the Italian blood in me.
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When I was younger, I used to be super, super shy. I still find myself being scared of things.
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I hate being interviewed. I'm like, 'Aaaarrgghh!' I don't like talking about myself.
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If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
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The more I expose myself to the Word of God, the greater my faith will be.
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I ran for myself, not Finland.
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I don't want to be the center of attention. My posture has changed. I walk with my head down and shoulders slumped. Suddenly I carry myself as if I'm ashamed of something.
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I considered myself most unfortunate because God had made me inhabit a female body in this world
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I have to hear more live instrumentation, more band and more funk, and I don't hear enough of it, so I created it myself.
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I might not be very smart, but I surround myself with smart people.
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I didn't think of myself as writing 'cli-fi,' but I'll take the label. I'll take any label that makes someone think they might be interested in my stories.
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If I ran into a 19-year-old version of myself, I'd just tell her to live, full out. I might also tell her to go ahead and have a few babies and not worry about the timing of it.
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Art and activism seem to go together naturally, the idea being that if you're an entertainer, you can have a voice, and if you have a voice, you can make a difference. But if I were not an actress, I would still try to extend myself beyond my little micro-universe of my job, family and personal joy.
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I saw myself as an outsider as a teen. I was home-schooled and got my G.E.D. when I was 16; I wasn't interested in high school at all and figured that college might be more entertaining.
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Women's art, political art - those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist.
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It took me a while to find myself.
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I think what's dangerous about being an actor who does action movies is you think, 'Well, I can totally handle myself now.' But if my opponent didn't know the other half of the routine, I don't know how well I'd do.
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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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I'm probably a Libertarian, if I had to put myself in any category. But you don't come out and talk about these things, for obvious reasons.
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I just want to continue to play football and be myself.
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I never really feel wrong while making movies. I know myself, and I know that my intentions are pure and I'm on the side of righteousness.
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If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself... something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.
