My own Quotes · Page 36

Some of my friends and family have tried to challenge me to do jokes that aren't as self-deprecating, where I genuinely express…

— Maria Bamford

I think that being isolated from the Hollywood world of premieres and red carpet events was probably good for me because I…

— Evangeline Lilly

I've never compromised who I am not ever. If I've gotten anywhere in my life it's been on my own merits.

— Cher

The pressure of show business is on all the time and show business is a fickle business. Whatever is popular now -…

— Nina Simone

I'd my own insecurities while portraying the role of James Bond.

— Pierce Brosnan

The older I get, the more I embrace my own idiosyncrasies.

— Brittany Murphy

I'm the oldest of six children and I had my own first baby when I was 23. So I've always been interested…

— Alison Gopnik

I am only speaking of my own behalf.

— Akbar Ganji

People made suggestions, but, hell, I don't actually listen to anybody, I just go my own way.

— Elia Kazan

I do teach fiction and non-fiction, and usually I'm interested in works that confuse genre, but I'm very new to teaching creative…

— Kate Zambreno

I learned to walk on my own legs, to dive so deeply into a role to forget that I'm acting.

— Tahar Rahim

Although such research [into the paranormal] has yet to produce anything in the way of a repeatable controlled experiment, its practitioners argue…

— Dennis Flanagan

I want to serve the society in my own way.

— Ali

I know my own truth. I'm in a great relationship with a woman. Maybe before it used to bother me. Then I…

— Matthew Morrison

Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

I refuse to be a doormat to any man. I will never allow anyone to push me around. I am my own…

— Manisha Koirala

Why should your majesty think it? My own plans are made. While I may, I sail East in Dawn Treader. When she…

— C. S. Lewis

The music I really like to get off on is the old rhythm 'n' blues and rock 'n' roll stuff... that's what…

— Van Morrison

I'm independent. I use my own money. For everything.

— Anonymous

I obviously want to give a healthy body image to my own daughter. I think having good examples, eating properly, that's all…

— Geri Halliwell

This country needs room to grow and expand. In all my own newspapers I read frightful tales of the shameful atrocities being…

— Gracie Allen

I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.

— Adam Jones

I usually write from my own experience, and that's definitely a true statement for me. I think having a song about desiring…

— Jon Foreman

The characters are not allowed to change if you write a sitcom; they're not allowed to learn anything. There's all these sorts…

— Alice Lowe

I just be comfortable in my own skin; I might wear anything.

— Anonymous