Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself.
I'll go my way by myself, love is only a dance.
When I was younger, many of my romantic escapades were just a means of simply avoiding being by myself. I was afraid of feeling lonely, afraid I wouldn't know what to say to myself.
I find myself enjoying a deeper love than I ever imagined was possible in the form of my daughter and certainly in the union with my wife. It makes everything else, including work, which is one of the things I'm most passionate about, pale by comparison.
I enjoy doing fashion shows and transforming myself into different looks for photo shoots.
I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them.
More and more, as I grow older, I find myself looking for inspiration in painting, illustration, videogames, and old movies.
I'm trying to eliminate every vestige of my own personality, style, approach and get into somebody else's skin. Sometimes I feel I've accomplished it. But when I don't, I'm nobody at all, having left myself at home.
I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose - although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope.
I don't take myself too seriously. I think that's something so many actors and people in general tend to do.
I cannot help it - in spite of myself, infinity torments me.
I don't want to sell myself short. You hurt your spouse, not so much by the infidelity, but by the negative feelings about yourself that you bring home.
I'd like to think of myself as the flavor of the decade.
All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to revisit old favorites and experiment with names new to me, I would be starved - probably too starved to go on writing myself.
I'm not afraid to blame myself for any of my own faults or just to analyze things in a different way, but I don't overanalyze, either.
I like conflicts. I love competition. I like discovering things for myself. It's a childlike characteristic, actually. But that gives you a certain amount of power, and people are intimidated by that.
There are lots of things I like about playing in a band, the things I can't do by myself you know.
I just see myself as just an ordinary chick from Florida, not some beautiful woman.
I played this character twice in live action, and now I've become an animated character. It was actually fun to see myself drawn - I've never been a drawn character before.
I always want to push myself as far as possible; I always want to be up there and recognised as a good goalie and have people appreciate what you do.
In everything I've written, the crime has always just been an occasion to write about other things. I don't have a picture of myself as writing crime novels. I like fairly strong narratives, but it's a way of getting a plot moving.
The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.
Sometimes I ask myself if writing novels is even respectable.
Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people.
When I look up at the screen and see myself I always have to laugh. Not because I think I'm doing a horrible job, quite the contrary, I just feel it's so surreal to feel like one person can entertain so many at one time.
Everything I want to do, and to accomplish, is on the other side of the universe. That's peace of mind, energy, freedom. And I'm making myself ready to go, joyfully and willingly. I think I'm ready to be everybody's friend, and to do anything for anybody. It's heavy.
I absolutely adore Thanksgiving. It's the only holiday I insist on making myself.
I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.
As soon as you tell me to do one thing, I do the opposite. As soon as someone tells me not to get any more tattoos, I have this intense fire burning inside me to cover myself with them. I don't care if it's self-destructive. I just have that need to rebel.
Growing up with three boys in a heavily male-dominated world, I especially needed to express myself as a woman.
I won't put myself in a position where I'm vulnerable.
You know, I did records by myself and I always will say the Isley Brothers, and featuring Ronald. I won't, you know, just, I won't try to deviate from the Isley Brothers, because that's what the family dream was all about.
I don't consider myself a Jewish writer.
When I think about the songs I might record, I ask myself, 'Can I picture anybody I know back home sitting in their truck cranking this up?'
I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work.
