All Quotes

I think of myself as a catalyst of action and a messenger of hope, turning people onto themselves and turning people onto their dreams.
‐‐ Les Brown

I think of myself as a character actor, compared to a straight actor. I know a character actor in England is pretty much the same as in the States; you're actually hired to put on terrible teeth and stuff like that.
‐‐ Burn Gorman

I think of myself as a content creator and, hopefully one day, a content enabler and supporter of others, so that's what my immediate and hopefully future journey is.
‐‐ Lake Bell

I think of myself as a fairly attractive girl and always have, thanks to my mom. I was brought into this world thinking I was gorgeous because my mother was extremely devoted to this notion.
‐‐ Amy Schumer

I think of myself as a fairly logical, scientific and somewhat reserved person. Maura Isles, the Boston medical examiner who appears in five of my books, is me. Almost everything I use in describing her, from her taste in wine to her biographical data, is taken from my own family. Except I don't have a serial killer as a mother!
‐‐ Tess Gerritsen

I think of myself as a fantasy writer.
‐‐ Sarah J. Maas

I think of myself as a film composer.
‐‐ John Williams

I think of myself as a funny guy but nobody thinks I'm funnier than my daughters.
‐‐ Jerry O'Connell

I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
‐‐ Barbra Streisand

I think of myself as a guy who tries to write screenplays and now has tried to direct one. Anything more than that is meaningless and it gets in the way of being a real human being.
‐‐ Charlie Kaufman

I think of myself as a highly sexual creature.
‐‐ Charlize Theron

I think of myself as a Hollywood hillbilly, but I'm sick of all these questions people ask about Alabama. 'Do you have an outhouse?' 'Is there a lot of inbreeding in your family?' They think all Southerners don't have computers and TV sets and that we're all still living in 1862.
‐‐ Sunny Mabrey

I think of myself as a journalist and a storyteller.
‐‐ Soledad O'Brien

I think of myself as a journeyman actor. I've got some talent and I work hard, but people like Brando or Pacino - those people are touched by God.
‐‐ Sam Rockwell

I think of myself as a journeyman actress. I will attempt almost anything that I think that I can bring off. It could be almost anything.
‐‐ Angela Lansbury

I think of myself as a little kid, and I had a wild imagination, but it was something that was encouraged and supported, which helped steer me into the arts.
‐‐ Uzo Aduba

I think of myself as a meat-and-potatoes kind of director.
‐‐ Stanley Donen

I think of myself as a mum who finds the time to go to work. I have to check myself for baby sick before I walk out of the house in the morning. I am really a mum... I know I am a great mother.
‐‐ Kate Winslet

I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue - I couldn't imagine myself seeking that.
‐‐ Natalie Merchant

I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
‐‐ Madonna Ciccone

I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.
‐‐ Laura Z. Hobson

I think of myself as a positive agnostic. I don't know, therefore I'm open. I don't know, therefore I'm interested.
‐‐ Grace Slick

I think of myself as a problem-solver. I want to go in and help the director and the writer to get the best they can out of the text they're working with.
‐‐ Michael Emerson

I think of myself as a producer. As a producer and as a showrunner, I already understand what it meant to gather people into a room and step back, to create the boundaries of 'everything's okay' to allow TV writers to go to their craziest places.
‐‐ Jill Soloway

I think of myself as a producer who tries to bring the best out of everyone, whether that be an artist, songwriter or a publicist.
‐‐ L.A. Reid

I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama.
‐‐ Joyce Maynard

I think of myself as a really happy person.
‐‐ David Guterson

I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels.
‐‐ Umberto Eco

I think of myself as a storyteller.
‐‐ Jane Lindskold

I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.
‐‐ Tanith Lee

I think of myself as a theater animal instead of an intellectual animal.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

I think of myself... as a troubadour, a village storyteller, the guy in the shadows of the campfire.
‐‐ Louis L'Amour

I think of myself as a very lazy author.
‐‐ Neil Gaiman

I think of myself as a very lazy writer, though other people see it differently.
‐‐ Samuel R. Delany

I think of myself as a very ordinary person. I like writing about the juxtaposition between people: the beauty of them at times and then the banal, everyday context in which we find ourselves.
‐‐ Rachel Joyce

I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist.
‐‐ Clifford Geertz

I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've always thought the best place for my photographs was inside books of my own creation.
‐‐ Sam Abell

I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots of jokes in it - I wouldn't know how to do jokes without the story.
‐‐ Steven Moffat

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

I think of myself as an actor.
‐‐ Oliver Platt

I think of myself as an actor first, not a sex symbol. Do I think I'm sexy? No, that's someone else's judgment, and I honestly don't think you can try to be sexy and really succeed.
‐‐ Tom Selleck

I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything - a child, an old man, a tree, a chair, a woman.
‐‐ Barry Humphries

I think of myself as an ambassador of the arts. In my heart of hearts, I know the world would by a more peaceful, tender place if we were more moved by the poetry around us.
‐‐ Tim Seibles

I think of myself as an assistant storyteller.
‐‐ Harrison Ford

I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals.
‐‐ Linus Torvalds

I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.
‐‐ Kate DiCamillo

I think of myself as an entertainment arsenal. Like I have my acting bazooka and my music machete. And you don't know what I'm going to come at you with.
‐‐ Jack Black

I think of myself as an Indian comedian, but I've had British and American schooling. I always had this feeling of not fitting in anywhere, of observing situations from the outside.
‐‐ Vir Das

I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
‐‐ Jim Morrison

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

I think of myself as an underground name. Quite a cult comic.
‐‐ Rhys Darby