No more Keats, I entreat: flay him alive; if some of you don’t I must skin him myself: there is no bearing the drivelling idiotism of the Mankin.
It's a very big deal to me to remain the same person because I know all of this is going to be gone one day and I'm just going to have myself.
I am President of all the people, good, bad, or indifferent, and as long as my opinions are known, ought perhaps to keep myself out of their squabbles.
In this world, it is too common for people to search for someone to lose themselves in. But I am already lost. I will look for someone to find myself in.
The energy you give off is the energy you receive. I really think that, so I'm always myself - jumping, dancing, singing around, trying to cheer everybody up.
I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself.
Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up.
Sometimes when I'm not working, I go and teach at an acting school, and quite selfishly, that makes me feel more inspired to do things myself.
Somebody had fired a shot at the President, and I had to get myself between the shooter and the President and Mrs. Kennedy. Nothing else mattered.
I came to the industry with wide eyes and an open heart thinking I was going to make a few films that really meant something that I could pour myself into.
I have never since entirely freed myself of the impression that this life is a segment of existence which is enacted in a three-dimensional boxlike universe especially set up for it.
You get to where you kind of like it, and It's a habit That's hard to break. I still find myself sittin' in a cafe, like a pizza parlor.
Throughout my rapping career, I always cooked for myself and anyone I worked with. It's what actually kept me grounded through those crazy years.
If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
If it’s the benefit to myself that drives my decisions, I can know that I’m driving down a long road with a short bridge.
I don't wear a bikini on the beach. I walk around my house in pyjamas. I haven't seen myself naked in the mirror for probably a decade. I'm very prudish.
Fur is my default, my indulgence. All human beings and myself have a lot of defaults. Many indulgences.
As a kid, sometimes you have nobody to turn to. I could always go back to some of the sermons and talk to myself in a righteous manner and put that in a song.
If I could steal someone's dream myself, I'd have to go for one of Orson Welles.
I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.
When I started writing songs, I was doing it for myself and a small circle of friends. And gradually, over the years, an audience became involved.
