When I was doing a movie called 'The Seeker,' I was fortunate enough to be able to do a lot of my own stunts.

I'm so critical of my own work that it's difficult for me to disassociate myself and watch it as an audience.

I still find it hard to push my own limits. I know where my limits are and that I always have to push myself.

My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.

I just don't like to be in my own - I'm already myself, so I don't like to be in my own - like, watch myself.

I've had a tough time learning how to act like a congressman. Today I accidentally spent some of my own money.

When I was setting up my own business in my early 20s I'd get up early and work every hour I could stay awake.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

There have been some ups and downs. I've not always had it my own way. That's the way racing is supposed to be.

When I experienced racism here in my own country, I was not prepared for it. I had never heard the word racism.

Since I cannot govern my own tongue, though within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongue of others?

I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know.

Anytime anybody is rude, it makes me double-check my own behavior to make sure I don't do that to other people.

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.

In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.

Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God's.

As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide.

I've never felt that I've had some great fashion sense of my own - I tend to wear what my wife tells me to wear.

What I have in my power, that is my own. So long as I assert myself as holder, I am the proprietor of the thing.

I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory.

I always liked having my own money and buying my own stuff. I didn't want to depend on somebody to do it for me.

When I was a boy, my own dad told me in a smiling and wistful way that it's a wise man that knows his own father.

I was born alone, I'm gonna die alone. I have my own identity. I'm my own person, and no two people are the same.

I'm not anti-fashion, but I've always had a bit of a punk attitude. That's important, I think. I do my own thing.

For me to have the opportunity to learn the darbuka and the tabla in Dubai, it created my own thoughts for music.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

I'd call myself the mediator. I kind of just float around and do my own thing. I'm kind of chilled out, laid back.

Wherever the wind blows me, I'll go! My eventual goal is to have enough experience to produce something on my own.

I write about my life and my own experience, but I also write about things that I have no knowledge of whatsoever.

I've never been pressed to be friends with everyone or be popular, even in school - I've always done my own thing.

I don't give advice, because I always made my own mistakes and would only be adding further chaos to the situation.

My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.

I grew up in the Bible Belt and I made my own clothes and dyed my hair purple. Nobody ever knew what to do with me.

Even if I could, I would not exahnge their virtues for my own. And that is why they are intent on learning from me.

I'm going to make my own heaven. I'm going to struggle for it. I'm going to fight to earn everything I dream about.

I've been fined probably more than any driver, and I've probably paid it out of my own pocket more than any driver.

Human dignity is the same for all human beings: when I trample on the dignity of another, I am trampling on my own.

In the past, it weighed on me because nobody in my family is gay. I had no role models so I had to find my own way.

I can be capable of anything if I allow myself to be. I really realized what an obstacle I was being in my own life.

In those days I was mortified, because I was a serious actor in my own mind, and then all of a sudden I'm this hunk.

The inner life of any great thing will be incomprehensible to me until I develop and deepen an inner life of my own.

I don't immerse myself in the media narrative every day. I establish my own media narrative, and that's what I live.

I think the best vacation is the one that relieves me of my own life for a while and then makes me long for it again.

I am restless. I don't mind leaving this comfortable, static life. I could live a year on my own in a remote village.

Nut butters are so versatile, especially peanut, and whenever I run out, I just make my own. It's cheaper and easier.

Pretty much my whole life, I've been a performer and have loved singing and writing songs in my room for my own ears.

I can't - I'll chop off my own foot!" "If you're going to chop off anyone's foot, chop off Benedict's," Will muttered.

It depends on whom I'm with. Sometimes I start out in my own voice, and no matter who I'm with, I take on their thing.

When I was 13, I opened my own business called The Awesome Pretzel Company, and my dad helped me build a pretzel cart.

Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own.

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