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I don't want to see myself as this sad, disabled girl. I know that. I don't want other people to see me as that, either.
There is absolutely a side of me that people don't know. I'm not myself on Snapchat or Instagram. That's totally not me.
I think of myself as actually kind of prudish and girly, but I don't know if a lot of other people would see me that way.
I think people take me as seriously as I want them to. They take me as seriously as I take myself - let's put it that way.
Since I still think of myself as a middle class guy, people get to see that side of me in films like 'Middle Class Abbayi.'
There were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing.
Even if I delete something, I know somebody probably will have a screen shot. I portray myself how I want people to view me.
I want to prove myself and get in talks for a title shot. It's hard because people don't want to risk themselves against me.
Even the people I surround myself with... are wiser, a little bit older than me, where before, all my boyfriends were younger.
I actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories.
It was almost like I gravitated toward the people who were encouraging me to be like myself and to be creative and be different.
When people tell me I'm a prolific writer, it's a nice thing to say. But I think to myself, 'Yeah, but I don't do anything else.'
I'm just being myself. To me, that people are interested in Jenni, not necessarily the artist, but the woman... it amazes me still.
People see me high-fivin' and smiling on the court, and they don't think that's me. But it is. I just want to go out and be myself.
People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.
A lot of people have problems with public confrontation, but it doesn't worry me at all. I can handle myself. I know my martial arts.
I have the LGBT audience behind me, and there's all these people that I want to make proud, and I want to do well aside from just myself.
I don't think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little.
I didn't have a problem with myself or my skin. I had a problem with the way people treated me because of my skin. They tried to define me.
I think people have always liked in me the combination of being the underdog because I'm a tiny woman but I have enormous authority in myself.
I'm half white, half Asian. I think of myself as hybrid. People usually think I'm Latina when they meet me. That's what made me learn Spanish.
Trying times will begin when I will take up my second film as that's when people will take me more seriously. I will have to prove myself too.
People have asked me about playing outsiders. I don't consider myself an outsider. Maybe that's why I'm interested in that. I'm not really sure.
I've exceeded the expectations people had for me as an unconfident runt who grew up in North Jersey as well as the expectations I had for myself.
I'm very grateful to all the people of Fresno, to Philip Levine and all the poets before me, and all the farmworkers. I didn't get here by myself.
I'm not that bothered about press nights as an actor or, particularly, by what people say about me, because I see myself as a reasonably small cog.
I'm really happy to be me, and I'd like to think people like me more because I'm happy with myself and not because I refuse to conform to anything.
I used to be obsessed about how I presented myself. I didn't want other people dressing me because I didn't want to be treated like a clothes horse.
Some people want to define themselves, and they should, as it's part of their identity. For me personally, I've never really had a label for myself.
The only honest and generous thing for me to do is to give people myself. That's all I've got as an artist, so I want to do that in an unflinching way.
I put myself out there; it's part of my job, and I get it: people will attack me. At first I was thrown off, but now I have a pretty thick skin about it.
I think growing up in a small town, the kind of people I met in my small town, they still haunt me. I find myself writing about them over and over again.
I don't know what the fans expect out of these fighters, but I know what I expect out of myself. And that's go out there, beat people up, and just be me.
I was sitting around, moping and feeling badly for myself. I went to the hospital to visit a child, and it hit me: helping people is what I'm meant to do.
As I learn more about myself, I think people learn more about me as well. It seems to correlate that way. I learn how to represent myself more as it goes on.
A lot of people, some of them close to me as well, have said that I sacrificed myself by doing what I did in bringing Terry on board. I didn't see it that way.
I have proved myself as a complete package, so people can be more confident about investing in me, and I do expect a little more trust from the industry members.
L.A. is an intense industry town, and there's a side of it that's superficial, but I surround myself with the kind of people who don't let me get sucked into that.
I know people want me to sort of defend myself, to sit here and be like, 'I'm a boy, but I wear make-up sometimes.' But, you know, to me, it doesn't really matter.
I'm a serious-minded and intense little devil, terribly gauche and so tense I don't see how people stay in the same room with me. I know I wouldn't tolerate myself.
When people come up to me and ask for a photo, ask for an autograph, I'm like 'Me? Are you sure?' I don't consider myself to be a public figure. I just happen to be.
Everybody has their own way to deal with it. I don't concern myself with other people's - whether or not they want to come out, it's not something for me think about.
I realized I was more convincing to myself and to the people who were listening when I actually said what I thought, versus what I thought people wanted to hear me say.
A lot of people have agencies to handle their social media, but I handle everything myself. That's why there are a lot of grammatical errors. When I write, it's all me!
Television takes you to an altogether different audience and directly to people's living room. On television, I'm being myself, and that's why people relate to me more.
I was gregarious as a kid, but I think the idea of actually getting to know people, I'm just shy. It sort of takes me a minute to want to sit down and talk about myself.
People nag me about my weight, my cooking, my tattoos, my hair, my sexuality, everything. I can deal with all that because I'm still doing my job and I kind of like myself.
I use myself as a measuring yardstick, and so if I come up with an idea that really scares me, then I'd like to think that people out there would feel the same way as well.
I know that it's the southern film industries that have made me an actor, and that is where people relate to me the most. I would never give it up or separate myself from it.
My outspoken beliefs have been embraced, but I don't consider myself an activist. Maybe people consider me as that, but it's not anything outrageous or bad I can't live with.