- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Me Quotes
Quotes rooted in the first person.
These are quotes centered on 'me' - childhood memories tied to family traditions, like a grandfather's holiday reading passed down for decades, alongside admissions about how humor can double as self-protection. Several speak to the solitary nature of creative work, something also explored in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Thoughts
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- Nov 07, 2020
I bring spiritual books with me while travelling. I like books about thoughts and how you see the world.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
All I want to do is a rom-com, but you know, people see me as an action person because the first movie that was seen by a lot of the public would be 'Hitman.'
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a man can make me laugh and stimulate me intellectually, then I wouldn't mind if he was 4 ft. 8 in. with a huge belly. The only thing that would put me off is bad breath - but even that can be fixed. A bad personality isn't so easy to fix.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having people I love around me - friends and family - is great, but I don't necessarily need a relationship.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe in miracles. At the age of 13, I was on holiday in Moscow with my mother. It was the only trip I took in my whole childhood. We stepped off a metro train and were approached by a talent scout who told me that she wanted to sign me to her modeling agency.
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hollywood always represents this big dream and fairy tale in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work. Of course, we play fairy tale on the red carpet. It's all Cinderella. But when the clock strikes midnight, I turn into a gray mouse and I go home, and I take my dress off and it's over. That's Hollywood.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did a shoot with massive iguanas in Costa Rica when I was modeling back then. They were like little dinosaurs, and they sat right across my arms and by my face. The guy told me not to make any sudden movements because they had enormous claws. The guy said he would rip my skin if he attacked.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Balconies scare me, and I would never do a shoot on one. I am afraid of heights.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I first read Sigmund Freud's 'Beyond the Pleasure Principle' as a young girl, and it helped me to understand that there are thousands of possible ways to interpret our experience, that everything has a meaning, and that interpretation is the key to reality. This was the first step to becoming a writer.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I decided to write a crime novel. That genre was at the height of its popularity in Poland, so I thought it might earn me a bit of cash to go on with my work on 'The Books of Jacob.' I shut myself away for a few months and devoted myself entirely to 'Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead.'
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first photograph I ever experienced consciously is a picture of my mother from before she gave birth to me. Unfortunately, it's a black-and-white photograph, which means that many of the details have been lost, turning into nothing but gray shapes.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
My university teacher and mentor Kenneth Arrow remembers me as a student who asked good questions. Although I had not previously thought of myself in that way, on reflection I think that Arrow was right.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Prison Notebooks' gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020