Myself As Quotes

#1. I do think of myself as a queen, but I don't think I'm the only queen. There's room for other queens. We reign over different kingdoms.

Madonna Ciccone

#2. I'm just myself, so I don't know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.

Aisha Tyler

#3. I've never thought of myself as a great beauty
just a great magician.

Sharon Stone

#4. I don't see myself as a Larry King or somebody. When you do interviews, sometimes it turns to interrogations. I'm more of a conversationalist, not throwing hardball questions.

Joe Morgan

#5. I don't think of myself as a singer really.

Graham Coxon

#6. I might live in Manhattan or Edinburgh or Cardiff. I think of myself as without nationality.

M. J. Hyland

#7. I don't think of myself as a symbol of the sixties, but I do think of myself as a symbol of following through on your beliefs.

Joan Baez

#8. I think of myself as a beginner. Sometimes that's the whole joy. If you could just do it, there'd be no point in doing it.

Wayne Thiebaud

#9. I don't think of myself as either American or Australian really, I'm a true hybrid. It's a good thing for me because both of them are really good countries.

Mel Gibson

#10. I've come to think of myself as a writer of books.

Richard Hell

#11. Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death threat living over your head. Activism is very sustaining. But I don't view myself as a political person. I'm just someone who desperately wants to stay alive.

Larry Kramer

#12. I get a little sick of myself as a solo artist. I get a little bit bored.

Juliana Hatfield

#13. I've surpassed any goal I set for myself as far as my body, my career, and getting married.

Ricki Lake

#14. I didn't picture myself as a movie actress. I began to think about it around college. I remember thinking, 'Well somebody has to be in them,' so maybe I could do that eventually. It's all been a surprise.

Annette Bening

#15. I'm not promoting myself as the next great American driver, as some people are describing me. If that's what people want to call me, fine. But I've got more important things to focus on.

Buddy Rice

#16. 'Mission: Impossible' is fun. But for myself as an artist, I'm really more concerned with the human condition, the human experience, especially from an African American point of view.

Ving Rhames

#17. I like to think of myself as some of the Scotch tape that holds things together - I'm very handy to have around. But all that actors really need is a bare stage. Lighting is just one of the luxuries of the theater.

Jean Rosenthal

#18. I don't really see myself as a big supermodel.

Agyness Deyn

#19. I've certainly long described myself as an activist. But an agitator? Well, yes, that too, I think.

Martin Burns

#20. I offer myself as a leader to the people of this country because I think they're looking for solutions, not lawyers arguing over laws or entertainers throwing out sound bites that draw media attention. We need to solve the problem.

Ted Cruz

#21. I don't think I'm good, I don't think I'm a good rapper. I think a lot of people always want me to battle somebody and stuff like that which is cool, but I don't see myself as a rapper.

Donald Glover

#22. I'd not really ever expected to play anything like 'Hamlet.' I hadn't seen myself as a natural Hamlet, whatever a natural Hamlet is, and I quickly realised there is no such thing.

Rory Kinnear

#23. I regard myself as an entertainer much more than an artist.

Peter Jackson

#24. My favourite superhero is obviously Batman because he's the sexiest. But I can't imagine myself as Batman.

Jamie Bell

#25. Women's art, political art - those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist.

Barbara Kruger

#26. I don't think of myself as a kind of celebrity, but wherever I go, people know me; they greet me.

Ricardo Salinas Pliego

#27. I never thought of myself as an impressionist, so when I do audition for voice-matching things, I have to work really hard and do a lot of listening and trial-and-error.

Tom Kenny

#28. I was always confident in my art and in myself as an artist.

Kim Weston

#29. I don't think of myself as an actress. I still think I'm fannying around in my mum's front room.

Michelle Gomez

#30. I preferred to think of myself as a cat. If I think of my behavior as cat behavior instead of people behavior, it pretty much always makes sense.

Jael McHenry

#31. I've always thought of myself as a businesswoman. I have the creative side, but I also have this business sense.

Catherine Bell

#32. I like to think of myself as very loyal, and I love everyone I surround myself with, whether they're friends or girlfriends or whatever.

Taylor Lautner

#33. What I loved about myself as a teenager is that I didn't know any better to be afraid or to be insecure.

Maggie Carey

#34. I have always had this failing - that I cannot explain myself, as I have said, except at the cost of many words.

Teresa Of Avila

#35. I like to think of myself as a regular guy, except I play football for a living. I try not to be an arrogant turd out there.

Brian Urlacher

#36. Equipped with two cell phones - one for work and another for home - I like to think of myself as a kind of 21st-century digital pioneer, ready to network, fax, page, e-mail and - oh, yes - talk at will.

Kara Swisher

#37. I did a couple comedies to balance myself as an actor and balance how audiences see Donnie Yen as an actor, and I would even say as a celebrity or icon, to some fans. I want to show that I'm not Terminator.

Donnie Yen

#38. I don't see myself as being as big of an influence as other people seem to think.

Marc Jacobs

#39. I wouldn't see myself as a gambler.

Sean Quinn

#40. I didn't grow up imagining myself as an opera composer. Only once in my entire adolescence did I attend an opera. I went and saw Aida at the old Met, didn't understand a thing about it, and thought it was pretty awful. But I think I had it in my genes without even realising it.

John Adams

#41. Besides, I now considered myself as bound by the laws of hospitality, to a people who had treated me with so much expense and magnificence.

Jonathan Swift

#42. I always want to push myself as far as possible; I always want to be up there and recognised as a good goalie and have people appreciate what you do.

Henrik Lundqvist

#43. Stripping toughened my hide, but exposing myself as a writer has been a lot more brutal.

Diablo Cody

#44. Because I'm so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to paint. And sometimes I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.

Joni Mitchell

#45. I don't see myself as offending people.

Jimmy Carr

#46. I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.

Aaliyah

#47. I here violate direct and explicit orders that were given to me, were given to me in the best interests of the United States of America. I here give you my true name, and I identify myself as the man you knew as "Frank Wirtanen." ... I exist. I can be seen, heard, and touched almost any day.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#48. For a while, I thought of myself as an atheist until I realized it was a belief, too. It's a shame everything has to have a label.

George Carlin

#49. I think of myself as an Olympian. I have had a dream since I was a very small child. And because I have parents without whom I couldn't have realised that dream.

Danielle De Niese

#50. I've basically thought of myself as a writer, whether I was or not.

Bob Schieffer

#51. I saw myself as a knight-errant ... but the damsel in distress stabbed me in the back, my sword shattered on the dragon's hide, and my grail turned out to be the bottom of a whiskey bottle.

Simon R. Green

#52. It's funny, because I've never thought of myself as a Hispanic actor, like in 'American Gangster,' I'm playing an Italian. I've always been fortunate enough to have been allowed to play all these diverse roles.

Yul Vazquez

#53. I've always viewed myself as a behind-the-scenes person rather than in front of the camera.

Tommy Mottola

#54. I don't really try to get involved politically by giving money to politicians or by saying I'm a Democrat or Republican. Right now, I just view myself as an American.

David Rubenstein

#55. I guess we need to keep adjusting our dreams to fit reality, because life is not going to cooperate. Maybe this makes me a defeatist, but I'd prefer to think of myself as realist.

Cassia Leo

#56. I would like to have won a Tony, I guess, because I have always thought of myself as a theater person. But I've won my share of awards, so I don't worry about it.

Stephen Schwartz

#57. I would describe myself as a practising Catholic. This is only my opinion; others may disagree.

Martin McGuinness

#58. I see myself as a mascot for the kids who get beat down and don't feel like they belong.

Jamie Campbell Bower

#59. I don't think of myself as being disabled, or able-bodied.

Natalie Du Toit

#60. I do see myself as aiming to foment some kind of revolution.

Martin Firrell

#61. I would describe myself as emotional and highly strung. If something upsets me, it really upsets me. If something makes me angry, I get really angry. But it's all very upfront. I can't hide it. I'm also loyal and I hope I'm fun.

Nicole Kidman

#62. I found the emotion that as an athlete you block out, and it really helped me to understand myself as a person. I'm a really emotional person and it helped make me a better person.

Carl Lewis

#63. I've always said that I count myself as a classical crossover artist. To be so, you have to have the core classical training, which I did for many, many years, but also be interested in the pop side of things. You can fit in somewhere in the middle. I feel I do that really well.

Katherine Jenkins

#64. I've tried to stay true to myself this whole entire time, and I think I've represented myself as creatively as I could with what I got on the show.

Blake Lewis

#65. I took some time away from the music industry. I've been doing this since I was 16 and needed some time to get to know myself as a grown-up.

Tove Styrke

#66. As a child, I'd help my mum cook, and it was ridiculous - she had the correct gadget or utensil for everything. 'Stop! Don't use that, I have exactly the right utensil.' After I left home, I survived on cup-a-meals and never saw myself as being like her. Now I've become her.

Kelis

#67. When I retired out of the military, I registered myself as a Republican because my views and perspectives were more in line with that party.

Allen West

#68. I think of myself as actually kind of prudish and girly, but I don't know if a lot of other people would see me that way.

Anna D. Shapiro

#69. I don't want to portray myself as a hardman in management or anything like that.

Stuart Pearce

#70. I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.

Mick Jagger

#71. We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville Tennessee in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.

James Agee

#72. I never thought of myself as handsome.

Willie Aames

#73. I feel like I really tapped into a pretty honest emotional place for myself as a lyricist. There's a broad spectrum of emotions.

Sarah McLachlan

#74. Looking at my life was very difficult. I think I learned that I haven't been as good a person as I'm inclined to think of myself as. I haven't been as good friend, haven't been as good a person, made a lot of mistakes.

Marge Piercy

#75. I see myself as an instrument of the Almighty and go on my way, regardless of transient opinions and views.

Wilhelm II

#76. Destiny is not a strange power which determines what shall happen to me. It is myself as given, formed by nature, history, and myself. My destiny is the basis of my freedom; my freedom participates in shaping my destiny.

Paul Tillich

#77. I don't look at myself as being famous. I look at myself as an athlete. If the money is there, I'd be happy, but I have to be happy within myself first.

Florence Griffith Joyner

#78. I think of myself as just another consumer.

Roelof Botha

#79. I'm a little bit more unusual so I consider myself as the black sheep.

Ann Wilson

#80. I actually don't want a throne at all, because I don't view myself as a queen; I view myself as one of my fans.

Lady Gaga

#81. I've been influenced heavily by great soul artists. I see myself as a soul singer. I sing from my soul - I write from my soul.

Robin Thicke

#82. Actually, I never really look at myself as a real radical activist; I am more the conservative. I mean, the conservatives are trying to conserve; the radicals are destroying the planet.

Paul Watson

#83. I've lived many places all over the world, so I've always seen myself as a citizen of the world.

Trevor Noah

#84. I am a colored woman or a Negro woman. Either one is OK. People dislike those words now. Today these use this term African American. It wouldn't occur to me to use that. I prefer to think of myself as an American, that's all!

Annie Elizabeth Delany

#85. I would describe myself as a 'total conservative, a conscientious one.'

Mike Huckabee

#86. Would I describe myself as new Labour? I'm Labour, organised Labour. I think labels have a limited use and that's where you really get into boy stuff sometimes, just sticking on labels.

Frances O'Grady

#87. I'll always continue to work. I've never much depended on anyone but myself, as far as that goes.

Mel Gibson

#88. I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approach to not getting things done.

Susan Orlean

#89. I don't picture myself as a normal person when I play football, and I don't think anyone else pictures me that way as well.

Robert Griffin III

#90. I've always maintained that I see myself as a student. There's always something to learn and be challenged by and hopefully grow from.

Nicolas Cage

#91. I'm a songwriter; that's where it starts. I love writing with someone that shares that same feeling of accomplishment. I'll play music for my fans as long as they'll listen, but I fancy myself as a writer first.

Randy Houser

#92. I started to study, because I knew I had to learn a lot about myself as an actor; you can't act the same as you did as a child.

Roddy McDowall

#93. Now and then, someone would accuse me of being evil - of letting people destroy themselves while I watched, just so I could film them and tape-record them. But I didn't think of myself as evil - just realistic.

Andy Warhol

#94. If I could imagine myself as God, I'd become him!

Arkady Strugatsky

#95. I would finally renounce my delusional hypotheses and revert to thinking of myself as a human of more conventional circumstances and return to mathematical research.

John Forbes Nash Jr.

#96. Money always has come to me, because I always have seen myself as endlessly abundant.

Wayne Dyer

#97. I recovered from recovering so no longer celebrate not doing bad things to defend myself as good. I added new bad for good measure.

Brian Spellman

#98. I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English.

Daniel Radcliffe

#99. I didn't like children. I didn't think of myself as a child. I didn't like any of the things other children were interested in.

Natalie Wood

#100. I'm nothing special, just an ordinary human being. That's why I always describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk.

Dalai Lama