- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
Myself Quotes
Quotes on knowing yourself.
These quotes turn inward, questioning long-held traditions and how one sees oneself - one recalls identifying strongly as a mathematician rather than a technologist, while another admits, with some humor, to relying on charm rather than looks. Related reading includes I Am Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Guy
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I had this big, long list of what I wanted in a guy but I realized I didn't stack up to the list myself.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
One day I actually took the list into the bathroom and I put it up against my face and looked in the mirror and I realized I had one of two choices, change the list or change myself.
- Kind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think of myself as a meat-and-potatoes kind of director.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always wrote for myself. I figured I'm not that different from other people. If there's a story I like a lot, there's got to be others with similar tastes.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I try to do is never to hurt anybody else and figure if I don't, then I'm not likely to get hurt myself.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoy putting myself in situations where you are nervous, but you need to enjoy yourself also. I've done skydiving, bungee jumping. I quite like those sensations - when you feel a little bit nervous and you don't really know where you are going. It's a quite good sensation that I love. I like the speed; I like everything.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I checked to see if there'd been a really good book published in the last few decades. Then I started with what Cleopatra would have read, asking myself, 'What can we know about her education?' It turns out to be a very great deal, and bizarrely, no one had written about that before.
- Hesitant
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm still hesitant to call myself a journalist. I see myself as a documentary maker who is trusted with hard-hitting current affairs issues.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Feeling the pressure to find a job or make the wage we earn go as far as we need it to? That's totally relatable. Nearly all my pals, and definitely myself, have been in that situation. It's no fun.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Be serious. You've got to do the job you were hired to do well, but there's always more you can do. When I was an assistant, I would say to myself, 'You may not be an executive, but act like one.' I would volunteer for any creative assignment - read scripts, do 'coverage,' write notes.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sheryl Sandberg was a mentor and a champion for me, and she saw something in me that I didn't see in myself.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a picture of Christopher and the real Ken Titus and myself in my dressing room. He's a great guy, by the way. I just think the real Ken is just super. And he's so happy for his son's success.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
My strength as an actor is in the theater - I know that about myself. Some actors get onstage and vanish, but I'm much better there than I am on screen.
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020