Top 100 I See Myself Quotes
#2. I have learned to walk: since then I have run. I have learned to fly: since then I do not have to be pushed in order to move.
Now I am nimble, now I fly, now I see myself under myself, now a god dances within me.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#3. I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world.
Michelle Shocked
#4. I see myself only sporadically as a teacher and consistently as a writer. Teaching is how I pay the bills ... and fortunately, for my students, I can intellectualize about writing, and I can talk about it well, and I like to talk about it.
Vijay Seshadri
#5. I don't know if I see myself as an actress for the rest of my life.
Clemence Poesy
#6. I see myself as life-sized, certainly not a supersized personality, and apparently after 30 years of television, that's what the audience thinks of me as well. I know this because for the first time in my career, I've just seen market research, and the thing I am known for is being authentic.
Jane Pauley
#7. The more comedic roles come easier to me though because I see myself as a silly, easy-going person.
Sara Paxton
#8. I see myself as a very successful entrepreneur. Maybe making films or else starting my own clothesline. I see myself as a corporate woman, sitting on the 16th floor of a swank office with a glass window that overlooks the Manhattan skyline.
Sushmita Sen
#9. I have never sought the unexpected, the novelty, the extraordinary, but rather what is most typical of our daily life ... I go out to find people who resemble me, and the mirror which these images offer them is the same as that in which I see myself.
Willy Ronis
#10. I don't really recognise success. I don't see myself as on an upwardly mobile trajectory. I see myself as on the edge of a cliff about to fall off.
Jonathan Ames
#11. Music is my passion so I feel like I'll be doing this for a long time and God forbid if anything happens I'll still write music. So, I could write music for other people. I see myself making music for a very long time.
Justin Bieber
#12. Then of course there are bigger things that matter, like who do I see up there in the congregation? Do I see myself up there? Well, I don't.
Michael Emerson
#13. First time I think about the world.
What the world got to do with anything, I think. Then I see myself sitting there quilting tween Shug Avery and Mr - - . Us three set together gainst Tobias and his fly speck box of chocolate. For the first time in my life, I feel just right.
Alice Walker
#14. More and more, I see myself as a folk musician, and someone who values context.
Rosanne Cash
#16. I palliate the sufferings of others. yes I see myself as softening the blows, dissolving acids, neutralizing poisons, every moment of the day. I try to fulfill the wishes of others, to perform miracles. I exert myself performing miracles.
Anais Nin
#17. I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages.
John Zorn
#18. I see myself as universal, not as a German, American, French or whatever, because we all live on this planet. We're all living on the earth.
Klaus Nomi
#20. In therapy, I see myself in the mirror differently.
Ricky Williams
#21. There's no blueprint for where I should be. I see myself as a young, good actor who still has a lot to learn. There's nobody at any point in their career who is the finished article.
Daniel Radcliffe
#22. I see myself in the mold of Rin Tin Tin. It didn't go to his head either.
Al Gore
#23. At present I am light, now I fly, now I see myself below me, now a god dances through me.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#24. If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone love me?
John Green
#25. I see myself as a traditionalist ... I like traditional things. I like things of substance and value that have been proven. Conceptually, as the songs started to come together, I followed that lead, which is the language I work in.
Jakob Dylan
#26. Sometimes I'll flip through a magazine and do a double take when I see myself in it, it's just crazy!
Kimberly Caldwell
#27. I've always been a producer - that's how I see myself first. The DJing came second as a way for me to be able to perform.
Avicii
#28. every time this happens
I see my father
my brother
my would be son
I see myself
stop killing us
R H Sin
#29. I see myself at 7:30 in the morning and it's not too pretty.
Rod Stewart
#30. I have always loved the amateur side of photography, automatic photographs, accidental photographs with uncentered compositions, heads cut off, whatever. I incite people to make their self-portraits. I see myself as their walking photo booth.
William Klein
#31. I don't sit around and read papers about myself. If I see myself on TV, if I don't like it, I change the channel.
Kerry Wood
#32. I see myself as the buffer between the band and the record company.
Jerry Harrison
#33. I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules.
Vera Wang
#34. Not to be too grandiose about it, but in a way I see myself like Sir Edmund Hillary. The water was my Everest.
Lewis Gordon Pugh
#35. I see myself as Kiki de Montparnasse, trying to get Man Ray's attention. (Sofia Navarro, 7th July 2012).
Sofia Navarro
#36. I see myself playing as long as I am partially enjoying the game and partially successful and they are paying me. But honestly, two more years is about all I can take.
Brett Hull
#37. "Country" has become a marketing term, but I see myself as a songwriter.
Rosanne Cash
#38. I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.
Alice Walker
#39. I intensely dislike the word 'critic,' because it puts you in an antagonistic position to artists. I've learned everything that I know about art from artists ... I see myself as an advocate and an activist and a writer.
Lucy R. Lippard
#40. I see myself raising my children in Europe, probably in Paris.
Diane Kruger
#41. Sometimes I see myself in the mirror, and it's 'Oh, God!' But the minute you stick out your butt a little bit and suck it in, you go from a 6 to a 10.
Cindy Margolis
#42. I see myself as a private-equity investor that helps rebuild companies. Restructuring is a cottage industry in that there aren't that many serious practitioners.
Wilbur Ross
#44. I don't know why; when I look at you, I see myself
Rumi
#45. The beth din is the court of the chief rabbi. I see myself taking an active role within the beth din.
Ephraim Mirvis
#46. I see myself as someone who's been saved by writing. God knows what I would have been, become or how I would have ended up without it.
Michael Ondaatje
#47. Every once in awhile I like to play dark ladies, crazy ladies, but most often I look for characters that are strong, intelligent, caring - usually earth women, because that's basically how I see myself.
Erin Gray
#48. I see myself as a citizen of the planet. Even as a child, I always found it mindless to root for your own team. I was puzzled by the fact that people said their own team was better than other teams simply because it was theirs.
Wallace Shawn
#49. I thought Marilyn Monroe was the most beautiful woman in the world and Elizabeth Taylor breathtaking. But when I see myself on the screen I say: 'Oh shoot! What are they talking about?'
Farrah Fawcett
#50. I'm better suited to be a director, I think. I see myself as the general author. I hate the word 'auteur,' because it sounds so solitary when filmmaking is anything but solitary.
Cary Fukunaga
#51. Here I love you.
Here I love you and the horizon hides you in vain.
I love you still among these cold things.
Sometimes my kisses go on those heavy vessels
that cross the sea towards no arrival.
I see myself forgotten like those old anchors.
Pablo Neruda
#52. It doesn't mean anything;
It doesn't change anything,
Except the way I see myself,
And it's not supposed to do that.
I shouldn't feel this way;
I should cry this way,
But I kind of do.
Yeah, I kind of do.
Margo T. Rose
#53. Sometimes I think I am still that 5-year-old girl playing with her dogs in the yard. That's how I see myself.
Rachel Hunter
#54. Art is not a job for an artist, just as religion is not a job for a priest." He runs his fingers through his hair again. "Sometimes I see myself as almost like an academic. My artworks are not really products; they are papers that you write when you have finalized a strain of thought.
Sarah Thornton
#55. I see myself as a comic but the acting helps sell tickets for gigs.
Alan Davies
#56. I see myself being a father, hopefully a husband, but I'm very gun-shy. The older I get, the further the goalpost.
Esai Morales
#57. Sex in a dance is in the eyes of the beholder. I never thought my dances sexy. I suppose that's because I see myself with my face washed, and to me I look like a rabbit.
Gwen Verdon
#58. I believed myself to be ready then; now, with the hindsight brought by greater age, I see myself for the naive and inexperienced young woman I was. We all begin in such a manner, though. There is no quick route to experience.
Marie Brennan
#59. I'm bicultural, and everyone sees me as a Latina, but in my head I see myself as both Latina and American.
Genesis Rodriguez
#60. I'm a chameleon, so changeable. I see myself as a gadfly and a questioner.
Philip Johnson
#61. I may not know you, but I don't see any difference between you and me. I see myself in you; we are one.
Debasish Mridha
#62. I see myself as a technical person who chose a great project and a great way of doing that project.
Linus Torvalds
#63. I see myself as part English and part American, with a dash of Irish thrown in, and a pinch of Italian from my mother's ancestry.
Allegra Huston
#64. I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.
Miriam Makeba
#65. I see myself living by correct principles and accomplishing worthy purposes. One of my favorite quotes is, "The greatest battles of life are fought out every day in the silent chambers of one's own soul." (David O. McKay).
Stephen Covey
#66. I see myself as a flashlight in the dark. I'm not trying to be overlooked anymore.
Lloyd Banks
#67. When I see myself in the videogame it's amazing how realistic I look. This is the most authentic and realistic soccer game I have ever seen. It is like I'm looking in a mirror. The attention to detail is incredible.
Claudio Reyna
#68. The canker of self-consciousness has been long in me, so like a lot of writers I not only do a thing, I see myself doing it too - it's almost like not being alone. That morning our hero skipped in his skivvies down to the shore of the sea . . . it was dark . . . the fog . . . Storytelling!
Charles D'Ambrosio
#69. It's funny, this thing about happiness. It's a commodity that was imported from America in the Fifties. I see myself simply as living my life ... I feel it's pushing your luck to define how happy you are.
Francesca Annis
#70. Every time I wake up, I see myself like somebody beat me up.
Javier Bardem
#71. I don't have it in my heart to condemn people. I'm here to encourage them. I see myself more as a coach, as a motivator to help them experience the life God has for us.
Joel Osteen
#72. I see myself as quite feminine. But many people seem to think differently about that; sometimes people mistake me for a man. In Paris I often hear 'bonjour monsieur'.
Saskia De Brauw
#73. I doubt I'll ever retire, but if I do, I see myself as the little old Parisian lady pushing her trolley from the supermarket to her apartment. Everyone needs a pipe dream.
Catherine Martin
#74. I see myself in [the] tradition of encounter and witness - a witness that sees the photograph as evidence.
Susan Meiselas
#75. I always focused on being an actor. I did stand-up briefly, but I also did a lot of dramatic work. But since I've been on 'The Daily Show,' people think I'm a comedian. That's not how I see myself.
Aasif Mandvi
#76. I don't really have an image of myself. Now, is that true? Well, maybe I do and it's different, which is why I get shocked when I see how other people experience me. I see myself primarily in a domestic setting.
Francesca Annis
#77. Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? But I always wonder about that. If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone, anyone, love me?
John Green
#78. I don't laugh at me. I used to. I used to get the giggles when I'd see myself. But now, I see myself onscreen, and I sure don't laugh.
Adam Sandler
#79. Everyone seems to see bleakness and despair in my books. I don't read them that way. I see myself as writing comic books, books about ordinary people trying to live ordinary, dull, happy lives while the world is falling to pieces around them.
J.M. Coetzee
#80. Maybe I see myself with kids, given the right place and right moment, with the right person.
Cat Deeley
#81. As an academic, this was not the lifestyle I had planned for myself. Now I see myself everywhere.
Ahmet Davutoglu
#82. I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous man, the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the man in love with love, always in search of the absolute, always seeking the unattainable
Henry Miller
#84. I was being categorized as some kind of twangy songwriter. And that's just not how I see myself.
Kathleen Edwards
#85. When I see myself on film it makes me smile, I mean making a good living doing what I enjoy is soo much fun. I just hope that everyone has the chance to enjoy life like I do.
Adrienne Barbeau
#86. If I see myself on a worst-dressed list - and I've been on many of them - I tend to have low self esteem for 24 hours. I just like to feel comfortable, and I like being excited about whatever it is I'm wearing. I hate subjecting myself to that kind of criticism!
Busy Philipps
#87. I see myself as a storyteller, I don't mind if the story is fact or fiction, if it's a good story I'd like to tell it.
Leanne Pooley
#88. I see myself much more as a writer/director or at least an aspiring writer/director - not necessarily in film.
Ricky Gervais
#89. I see myself more as a character actress than a celebrity.
Rose Byrne
#90. I see myself working, making a living and doing projects that I'm passionate about, regardless of the medium.
Matt Bomer
#92. I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality ... That's a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others.
George Stevens
#93. I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.
Octavia Spencer
#95. Wonderingly, I lift my long, flowing sleeves into the air, and that's when I see myself on the television screen. Clothed in black except for the white patches on my sleeves. Or should I say my wings. Because Cinna has turned me into a mockingjay.
Suzanne Collins
#96. I see myself as a storyteller. So, when I read something, I see the story, and I see it on screen, in my head, in a certain way. I always want to see it and see me in it.
Samuel L. Jackson
#97. I see myself as a social conservative, but I think that there are lots of social institutions that produce beneficial reforms, like public hospitals, for instance, and schools.
Tony Abbott
#98. I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.
Lady Gaga
#99. My head drops back and I have a fleeting out-of-body moment where I see myself in the window, my hands tied above my head with my legs wrapped around the neck of Chris Merit, while he does delicious things to my body.
Lisa Renee Jones
#100. I see myself as a character actor, and I've always been drawn to playing characters that are different from myself because acting is escapism for me. I've never been that comfortable playing people that are like me.
Alessandro Nivola
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