Self Perception Quotes

“I wasn't shy, but I was really hyper. Nobody got my sense of humor. I was a black skater kid.”

“I'm a really, really, smart, multi-talented almost-genius, who's very annoying.”

“One of the problems with trying to help underdogs, especially with government programs, is that they and everyone else start to think of them as underdogs, focusing on their problems rather than their opportunities. Thinking of themselves as underdogs can also dissipate their energies in resentments of others, rather than spending that energy making the most of their own possibilities.”

“The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.”

“I'm always embarrassed when people say that I'm courageous. Soldiers are courageous. Policemen are courageous. Firemen are courageous. I just have a thick hide and disregard what silly people say.”

“Some of the most beautiful people in the whole world wake up some days and they don't think that they're pretty.”

“I'm not concerned with people seeing me in a certain way. Some people see me as a kid, some people see me as an adult. But I'm seriously not going to complain how anybody sees me, as long as they see me.”

“Your attitude about who you are and what you have is a very little thing that makes a very big difference.”

“I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don't.”

“I was never a boy magnet at school. There was always the girl all the guys liked and wanted to date, but it was never me.”

“Seems like the only one who doesn't see your beauty is the face in the mirror looking back at you.”

“I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.”

“To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.”

“Half the people you know are below average.”

“I haven't changed at all. I'm the same as when I was 11.”

“I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it's like a circus in my head.”

“I'm a Scorpio with a Pisces moon. I am very critical of myself. I'm actually way less critical of others than I am of myself. I'm in my own head a lot. It's hard and really discouraging.”

“I think who you are in school really sticks with you. I don't ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It's like, 'Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.'”

“I try to think of myself as a chic fishing grandpa aesthetically.”

“I feel like every outfit I have ever planned ahead is trash.”

“I'm not a futurist.”

“But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime. I know everything worth knowing about myself--" ~Something Wicked This Way Comes”

“I never even thought of myself as deadpan until someone wrote an article about me about a year after I was doing comedy. There was a paper called the 'Boston Phoenix,' and someone wrote a description of what I was doing and that's where I first saw 'deadpan.'”

“I don't go around thinking I'm Ray Bradbury all the time.”

“I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck.”