Himself Quotes

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.

The artist himself is actually the subject in everything after, say, 1900. Eventually, art becomes so removed from the community that you have to know about the artist before you can even look at the painting, because there is a conceptual idea going on.

He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.

He saw us play a few times in fact. I did this song called I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes, and Jimi loved it. He paid me a huge compliment when he told me that he was thinking of doing something similar himself!

Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.

Well, it all depends on how you, you know, perceive the religion angle. I always say to each their own and I'd much rather have a guy that's going to be preaching religion as oppose a guy who's going to be shooting himself in the leg.

He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.

Membership of the United Nations gives every member the right to make a fool of himself, and that is a right of which the Soviet Union in this case has taken full advantage.

In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.

Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.

An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that.

I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.

My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.

I've always said I'm not the kind of designer who likes to lock himself away in a studio and let the rest of the company deal with it. I work very closely with everyone on the team.

Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.

It's true that Blake was emotionally disturbed - always has been - but he doesn't have murder in his heart. If he was going to do any damage to anything or anyone, it would be to himself.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

The worst situation you can have in a thriller is a lead who looks like he can handle himself.

Woody Allen is really the ultimate. I love that he believed in himself enough to do what he did. And I have that same feeling - that there's nobody that looks like me in movies, nobody would cast me as a romantic lead, but I want to do it and I feel confident that I can.

The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

Movie acting is about covering the machinery. Stage acting is about exposing the machinery. In cinema, you should think the actor is playing himself, if he's that good. It looks very easy. It should. But it's not, I assure you.

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.