Early on in my career, I’d go into the makeup trailer, and they’d spend an hour doing my makeup, and I would hate it. I’d go into the bathroom, wash it off and start over again, which took an enormous amount of time. So I just started doing it myself. – Donna Mills
I’ve spent my fortune, tarnished my public view and made myself the brunt of punch line after punch line. – Mindy McCready
Before you, I engage myself to serve my country with the devotion and the exemplary that this post demands. I understand responsibilities of the job and, as such, I give a republican salute to Nicolas Sarkozy who has led France for 5 years and who deserves all of our respect. – Francois Hollande
I usually find several ways to express myself: different moods, different days, different voices, different things, ‘I’m lighthearted today, I’m gonna do this.’ – Fred Durst
I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone’s got their own definition. Mine, I suppose, is to know myself. – Eric Clapton
I literally cannot remember a time when I was not asking myself what events in ‘Star Wars’ were like for Princess Leia. The good side of all this is that what looked like ‘goofing off’ or ‘daydreaming’ these many years has all turned out to be valuable career preparation. – Claudia Gray
It’s a mental battle trying to come back from injuries and I don’t feel like having that mental battle with myself. – Maurice Greene
I wasn’t absolutely too sure where the Falklands was, and I didn’t want to make a bloody fool of myself. – Denis Thatcher
I got into music, I was in a band, I was at art school. I was quite trendy, although I’d hate to meet myself. The over-preening, the pretentiousness, the arrogance of youth! I think, ‘Oh, that guy was so full of himself.’ – Peter Capaldi
I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn’t like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process. – Gail Carson Levine
I still find it hard to push my own limits. I know where my limits are and that I always have to push myself. – Charlotte Gainsbourg
I once in a while cheat and have a little ice cream, and then I kind of blame myself. – David H. Murdock
It’s kind of shocking to me, actually, that I’ve almost been stereotyped, in a way – physically – because, I didn’t get good grades in school; I got in a lot of fights. I wear glasses because I don’t want something tugging my eyeball, but I wouldn’t consider myself a ‘nerd.’ I don’t know what really makes someone a nerd. – Charlyne Yi
In the past I would self destruct when it came to love – I was immature, throwing myself into things but now times have changed, I want a relationship where you understand the other person. – Elisabetta Canalis
I’ve always done things myself. I’ve never bragged or screamed that I produced a record before. I never told anybody. – Cat Power
Such is my experience – not that I ever mourned the loss of a child, but that I consider myself as lost! – Deborah Sampson
I did not fully understand the dread term ‘terminal illness’ until I saw Heathrow for myself. – Dennis Potter
I had never read Victorian novels before going overseas. I read a handful of authors, but I had not immersed myself in the literature of the 19th century. – Eleanor Catton
I’m quite hypercritical of myself. It’s a very Scottish thing, always thinking that you’ve got to be that bit better than everyone else to be good enough. – Nicola Sturgeon
‘In My Hands,’ the title track, is my very first vocal attempt, and I’m not a singer as such. But I’ve always wanted to express myself vocally on my albums, and I don’t really have much of a capability for singing. The strength is in, I think, the lyrics and just speaking. It just comes from inside. – Natalie MacMaster
I think for me to find that project is going to be something that I’m going to have to develop for myself. – Nia Long
If I compared myself to my kids, they know everything, and they’re like small little hackers. I feel also that my identity can be stolen; I’m very paranoid about it compared to other people in the younger generation. – Michael Nyqvist
I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: ‘I want to be the richest man in the world.’ I’ve come a long way from there. – Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
The essays are different because ultimately it’s things I’m interested in, and I’m really just writing about myself and using those subjects as a prism. – Chuck Klosterman
When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness. – Comte de Lautreamont
