I’ll tell you, I think that the Internet has provided an enormous boost to film criticism by giving people an opportunity to self publish or to find sites that are friendly. – Roger Ebert
If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I’d think I wasn’t that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful. – Orla Brady
But I really believe that when you give people authentic identity, which is what Facebook does, and you can be your real self and connect with real people online, things will change. – Sheryl Sandberg
You play to different parts of yourself when you take on various roles. Like, you are your confident self when you’re playing this person, and you’re your sad self when playing another person – but it’s all a part of you somewhere. – Riley Keough
I do think that the strongest character is somebody that you can connect with to your personal self, or at least find the humanity in both of you and start from there. – Ruthie Ann Miles
I worry about my kids growing up and how the world might hurt them. But at the same time, I absolutely do not worry about them growing up – because they have great values and a great sense of self. – Reese Witherspoon
The completely solitary self: that’s where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also. – Seamus Heaney
How wonderful to know that when Jesus Christ speaks to you and to me, he enables you to understand yourself, to die to that self because of the cross, and brings the real you to birth. – Ravi Zacharias
I have this game with my friends: When we go out, if ‘Treat yo’ self’ is tagged within the last six minutes on Twitter, they buy lunch. If not, I buy. They always buy. – Retta
We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs. – Richard Powers
That which comes and goes, rises and sets, is born and dies is the ego. That which always abides, never changes, and is devoid of qualities is the Self. – Ramana Maharshi
I jumped off the wheel of fortune because I wanted to simplify things. Now I’ve fulfilled my obligations to myself by making my new record. I’d like it to sell millions of copies, but my self – worth is not based on chart positions. – Roland Gift
I’m self-opinionated, and I have a sense of self. I can be brutal with agents and have been. – Paul Eenhoorn
The fact that one can lose one’s sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one’s consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe. – Sam Harris
I can’t give more than I have. It doesn’t matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self. – Olivia Thirlby
You can suffer for your art, and you can make your own self suffer for your art. You don’t need anyone else to do it for you. – Ruth Negga
Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self… When acting, you’re someone else. – Sabrina Carpenter
Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self. – Ralph Marston
It’s only recently that we’ve discovered that the artist’s inner self is somehow more important than the public world. I’m happier to create exterior pieces for the world rather than to express something I deeply feel or wish to say. – Peter Ackroyd
If I told my 18-year-old self that one day I’d have a sitcom and a sketch show on TV, I think he’d just drum his fingers and go, ‘When? How long is that going to take?’ – Robert Webb
James Brown was my favorite, my absolute idol. Every time I played with him was like a music lesson, and I never thought I could be so funky! I mean, a white boy from Canada – a Jew – getting down with his funky bad self! – Paul Shaffer
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery. – Reinhold Niebuhr
Scientology always makes me think of that movie ‘V’ where that woman takes off her mask of human flesh to reveal her true, alien self. – Rick Astley
I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I’ve become. If I had, I’d have done it a lot earlier. – Oprah Winfrey
The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn’t want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free. – Rachel Cusk