I've always thought of myself primarily as an artist; it's…

I know this'll sound obnoxious, but acting was very much an accident for me. I didn't have, like, posters of Marlon Brando in my…

— Michael Shannon

There was a point when I thought I would primarily be a writer, but the acting seems to have got in the way. So…

— Lennie James

I had gotten injured during the boxing, and I was supposed to take several months off because I'd had a couple of concussions, and…

— Mickey Rourke

When people say, 'Who are you?' I'm a sculptor and a painter. That's how I define myself. The acting is fun, and I hope…

— Michael Horse

I don't like to define myself as necessarily conservative. What is it to be a conservative? What is it to be a Republican, even?

— Abby Huntsman

I am me. I have to define myself. I'm going to stand up at the back of the train and take control of my…

— Kelly Masterson

I can't really define myself as a dramatist or as an actor or as someone who is interested in music.

— Robert Lepage

I spent a lot of time learning how to define myself internally rather than externally. I learned how to care less about external validation.…

— Chris Sacca

“I have discovered that if I can change the way I think about something, I can change the way I react to it. If…

— Lysa TerKeurst

I still define myself by the places that I've been.

— Ani DiFranco

I was willing to accept a bad reputation if I deserved it, but it was going to be based on my actions, not on…

— Casey Wasserman

I don't define myself as an actor at all. Nor is that my greatest passion in life by any stretch of the imagination.

— Shenae Grimes

I like to define myself as a fighter on the pitch.

— Gabriel Jesus

I guess I define myself as a mother, a wife, kind of a nutty person. A good person.

— Meredith Vieira

I find it hard to define myself.

— Bruno Fernandes