To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.
People always want to ask me about my drug problem - I never had a drug problem; I had a self-esteem problem!
I know I have a very self-destructive tendency since my mother died, I have got to be honest.
When you become a slave to a public persona and don't feel comfortable without it, it becomes a shield, and it shouldn't come at the expense of your self-worth.
The Iraqis are not threatened by the Turks or by the Iranians or by the Saudis and they tell me that these are not weapons of mass destruction, they are weapons of self-destruction.
I'm self-taught and emailed photographers I knew if I had questions I couldn't figure out from the manual or online.
Fame is a by-product which you have to deal with in a sensible way. To believe that it is anything more significant than that is deeply self-deceptive.
I was always rather outspoken. I worried about what people thought of me but there really wasn't room for a lot of self-doubt.
It’s ego – the false self – that exalts the guru and declares the teaching sacred, but nothing is exalted or sacred, only true or not true.
Writing provides no guarantees. And writers who stay with writing do it for reasons that are larger than self.
My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession.
My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self-fulfilling prophecy?
Actors think they're far more important than they are, and that can only lead to hurt. People with colossal self-importance have very far to fall.
Modelling, it's being an artist as well. It's just being a silent artist. It takes a lot of self-control and a lot of discipline.
Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.
Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain.
You don't have to be like anyone else. You just need to learn more about your own creative self and start blooming.
World’s definition of success material validation of self cold and naked substitute for inner warmth and beauty.
I think self-discipline is something, it's like a muscle. The more you exercise it, the stronger it gets.
The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.
You don't have to burn books, you don't have to rebel against teachers to rebel; to rebel is to truly own your own self.
