I'm a very loyal person and I allowed myself to be defined as somebody who was doing Gordon's bidding. I should have fought back harder to define myself at an earlier stage.
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Related When I'm a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It's someb... CLINT EASTWOOD As a young actor, people were trying to define who I was before I really knew that for myself. But I... TOM CRUISE I always considered myself being an organizer. I'm very good at teaching singers, I'm very g... IKE TURNER I've really fought to get into rooms, and I'm a big believer in auditioning. It's hard, ... ALEXANDRA DADDARIO First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself ... MARILYN MONROE I like being independent; I like doing things myself. I'm an instinctual person. CATHY MORIARTY I've always been a person who's been true to myself and true to others, and I'm not afra... TAMAR BRAXTON I was willing to accept a bad reputation if I deserved it, but it was going to be based on my action... CASEY WASSERMAN I should have never allowed myself to be as familiar with my staff as I was. ERIC MASSA I don't see myself as someone who's ever going to be defined by one moment. It's on to t... JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE I think I'm always adopting a persona. That's how I look at pop music. I don't feel like... ROBYN I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as someb... OPRAH WINFREY I'm very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn... DAVID BOWIE I work on myself daily to be a better person. When I react in a negative way to somebody, I sit back... LIZZO I have a strong sense of myself. That gives me a sense of security, you know? If I define myself by ... BLAKE LIVELY I have very high expectations of myself. I'm a very competitive person but competitive with myse... WENTWORTH MILLER I'm not a party person. I'm a nerd. I'm not an extrovert in that way at all. The things ... ANDIE MACDOWELL I'm just not a religious person, not at all. I consider myself a spiritual person. I was always ... MARCIA CLARK I'm a very sensitive person. I do like to be respected. I'm very loyal. I like it to be a tw... JIM BROWN I feel like anything I'm doing in life, I try to stay myself and be as honest and true as I can ... LIAM HEMSWORTH I don't think of myself as a trendy person at all, and if I'm anything, I'm probably con... ALFRED ENOCH I'm a very loyal and very private person when it comes to my personal life. But I obviously do h... KENDALL JENNER I was so nervous because I was doing my first film. I didn't want to embarrass myself. I'm a... TAHYNA TOZZI I'm throwing myself back in because I like being married. I don't want to end this whole fab... NEIL DIAMOND As a kid, I thought of myself as a funny person who secretly wanted to be serious, but now I think m... NOAH BAUMBACH Women's art, political art - those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality whic... BARBARA KRUGER I like to think of myself as very loyal, and I love everyone I surround myself with, whether they... TAYLOR LAUTNER I'm very organized and tidy in my home life and I generally do something myself rather than farm... MARK STRONG I give myself homework when I have an audition. I give myself goals, and that's how I check how ... LUPITA NYONG'O I'd rate myself an 8. I do have my flaws, but I'm a cool dude. If I wasn't myself, I'... LANCE GROSS I usually describe myself as an engineer; that's basically what I've been doing since I was ... ELON MUSK It's funny, because I've never thought of myself as a Hispanic actor, like in 'American ... YUL VAZQUEZ I'm going from doing all of the work to having to delegate the work - which is almost harder for... ALTON BROWN I'm the sort of person who keeps a lot to myself. PATRICK RAFTER I have to convince myself I know what I'm doing. JOE NAMATH I don't think of myself as a comedian, but as an artist, a scientist and chemist who just happen... MARLON WAYANS Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death thr... LARRY KRAMER When I'm writing, I'm trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience, rath... CHARLIE KAUFMAN When I'm doing a photo shoot, I'm not playing a part. I'm just trying to be myself. GASPARD ULLIEL I'm the man who sits behind a table and tells true stories from his life. I'm also an actor.... SPALDING GRAY I'm not an insecure person, per se, but I just never saw myself as the girl who walks into a pla... MARGARITA LEVIEVA It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It'... ALAN ALDA I never want to pigeonhole myself or get typecast. I'm looking forward to my career and showing ... SAMIRA WILEY If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for ... AUDRE LORDE One thing about me is that I'm very much like the Black Madonna. I love to reinvent myself and t... LIL' KIM Whenever I'm talking about relationships, it's always at least three things. It's my rel... JOSE JAMES I have a harder time eating properly than I do exercising. It's easier for me to add an activity... CARRIE FISHER I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never bee... AL YANKOVIC My mother is an actress, and my aunt Margaux was a model. And it's funny, as much as I'm all... DREE HEMINGWAY I know I'm a good professional, I know that no one's harder on me than myself and that's... CRISTIANO RONALDO I find myself very drawn to the experience of church. I love to be in a surrounding that's so we... DAVID GREGORY I'm doing what I wanted to do since I was a young girl. I pinch myself every day to make sure it... LAURA OSNES I've always said that one night, I'm going to find myself in some field somewhere, I'm s... DREW BARRYMORE I'm not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me. TOM BRADY I have to feel myself doing what's right. If I'm the arbiter of that instead of letting the ... TIM COOK I'm somebody who can laugh even at myself. That happens now and again, when I've made a mess... EDEN HAZARD My husband and I have known each other since kindergarten. I had a crush on him in school, but we ne... ALISON SWEENEY Just because I liked something at one point in time doesn’t mean I’ll always like it, or that I ... JAROD KINTZ I feel confident imposing change on myself. It's a lot more fun progressing than looking back. T... DAVID BOWIE I'm learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I'm doing. CHANTAL KREVIAZUK I definitely try to be myself and not try to imitate other performers. That's why I got my music... LUIS FONSI I saw myself as a teacher's pet but with a little of Ed Haskell mixed in. I was the teacher'... DAMON LINDELOF I would describe myself as emotional and highly strung. If something upsets me, it really upsets me.... NICOLE KIDMAN I'm like, 'Yeah, I could afford braces, but why should I change myself to be what everybody ... BECKY G I was an aspiring astrophysicist, and that's how I defined myself, not by my skin color. People ... NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON I put a limited time on the blues. I say, 'I allowed myself to be blue for four hours, and now I... TERI HATCHER I don't define myself. I'm just a woman in love with another woman. CYNTHIA NIXON I'm the type of person to put myself in everybody else's shoes. YOUNG THUG I love doing sketches, but I don't relish being by myself. That's not something I'm used... JANE LYNCH I'm a very private person. I find it very daunting to have to give private parts of myself away ... EMILY BROWNING As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn. I didn't really have the nerve to sing my song... DAVID BOWIE I'm not the kind of person who sits off by myself and ignores everyone. I like to be happy! JENNA BOYD I feel myself becoming the fearless person I have dreamt of being. Have I arrived? No. But I'm c... JANELLE MONAE I love to reinvent myself, and that's because I am a very free person. I do what I feel, and I l... LIL' KIM I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.' DAN SHECHTMAN I've always had to conquer fear when I'm on stage. Basically, I was and still am a very shy ... STEVEN WRIGHT I don't know if I have a brand. I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who ju... ZACH JOHNSON I'm a freelance person, and I've always been able to support myself. GLORIA STEINEM I'm not creating an enigma or leaving mystery, I'm just respecting myself enough as an artis... MIKA Every time I step onto the stage, it's not only proving to the audience that I'm capable but... MISTY COPELAND I think I'm evolving, I'm always in search of bettering myself, how I can improve as a sport... SONNY BILL WILLIAMS I am very ambitious and have set goals for myself. I really don't keep a tab on what my contempo... SONAM KAPOOR I'm direct, I'm unpretentious and I'm pretty dogged, and I hope I've got a capacity ... JOHN HOWARD I'm never the kind of person who's sitting at home reading the charts and basing how I feel ... PINK I'm not very interested in myself. I do have a deep moral belief that you should always look out... A. S. BYATT There's nothing I'm doing to my body that a regular person is not doing to theirs outside of... RAY LEWIS Because I'm an older mom, I have a responsibility to my kids as well as myself. I want to be the... CHRISTIE BRINKLEY I'm very comfortable with myself and my sexuality, but it doesn't define me. I also read boo... EVA MENDES It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm ... TANITH LEE I don't consider myself an artist. I consider myself a very opinionated man who uses words as fi... LARRY KRAMER I have two passports because I have to have at least one, and I really don't know how I define m... JHUMPA LAHIRI I don't think of myself as a romantic person; I'm kind of more rough and tumble, I think. Th... PAUL WALKER I'm very blue collar myself. So it was easy for me to embody that in a sense. It's much hard... EDDIE MARSAN It's not the moment yet for me to enjoy my time as an actor, and as the time goes by, I feel tha... PARK BO-GUM I'm always very uncomfortable with people. It's something that I get upset with myself for, ... NANCY MARCHAND I don't see myself as a 'black actor,' I'm just Shemar Moore the actor. I'm very... SHEMAR MOORE December used to be very difficult for me. For many years, I fought the transition to the new year, ... BRAD FELD I majored in journalism at Arizona State University, where I began writing the columns I write now, ... LAURIE NOTARO I'm a fashion designer. I don't want to be defined as someone's girlfriend. L'WREN SCOTT I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and... J. D. SALINGER
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I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to s... ED PASTOR While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant. ED PASTOR Health care should be affordable for everyone. ED PASTOR Make health care a right, not a privilege. ED PASTOR As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important thi... ED PASTOR Funding and maintaining programs from Head Start to Pell Grants must be a high priority. ED PASTOR Access to basic quality health care is one of the most important domestic issues facing our nation. ED PASTOR What we do want to see is reforms that are going to have a permanent effect on the budget deficit. ED PARKER With every social media, there's hate and things like that. ED OXENBOULD I don't watch any horror films. I get scared very easily. ED OXENBOULD I love to watch low-budget indie artsy films, but I do also love the big blockbuster things. I would... 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ED O'NEILL In terms of comedians, I loved, growing up, Jonathan Winters, Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason, Phil Silve... ED O'NEILL I was in Africa once. I was in Kenya. I got off the plane, and I thought, 'Africa...' Some g... ED O'NEILL I say I'm the best actor in America who's never done a movie. ED O'NEILL All this flying around got on my nerves. But then I gave the script to Cathy to get her opinion. Whe... ED O'NEILL I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested... ED O'NEILL I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I... ED O'NEILL That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee w... ED O'NEILL When I read the pilot 'for Married with Children', it just reminded me of my Uncle Joe... ju... ED O'NEILL There was this discussion to know how long the human ear was really receptive to the music. A 74 min... ED O'BRIEN What had disappointed me at the time of the last tour, was to go on a worldwide tour, we were at som... ED O'BRIEN So we are not doing the traditional album, tour, album, tour, album, tour anymore. We're going t... ED O'BRIEN We are different people - you get a different take on the band whoever you speak to. Somehow, at the... ED O'BRIEN For a band like us tracklisting is a massive, massive task. ED O'BRIEN At the end of OK Computer we were playing big, big arenas and it wasn't right. You can do those ... ED O'BRIEN It's really weird to be playing chords again. Haven't played chords for a long time. I reali... ED O'BRIEN Not in the mornings, I'm always so tired in the morning. ED O'BRIEN The thing is, it really did take us too long to get these recordings done. We've had our rough t... ED O'BRIEN But for the first time, we haven't made a huge leap forward in sound from our last album. Fans w... 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ED O'BRIEN We don't hate the media, it's just that when there's too much of it we get bored, but it... ED O'BRIEN Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that. ED O'BRIEN We are a weird bunch, we are very disparate. ED O'BRIEN It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country. ED O'BRIEN All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring ab... ED MCMAHON The majority of people who buy homes in golf course communities don't play golf. Golf is way dow... ED MCMAHON Golf courses sell real estate and that's why they're built. ED MCMAHON Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without bei... ED MCMAHON You can grow without destroying the things that you love. ED MCMAHON There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great t... ED MCMAHON There was a time... when people didn't go out of their house on Tuesday night at eight o'clo... ED MCMAHON Like Venice, Italy, New Orleans is a cultural treasure. And everyone who lived in the city should be... ED MCMAHON It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really... ED MCMAHON Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from... ED MARKEY The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted a... ED MARKEY Well, as you know, General Motors does not make hybrids. Ford only made 4,000 hybrids last year. ED MARKEY Just this week, Syria broke off all relations with the United States military and the CIA. ED MARKEY The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their c... ED MARKEY The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture. ED MARKEY Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language. ED MARKEY Our nation's security, economy, and place on the world stage depends on the success our educatio... ED MARKEY You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas. ED MARKEY Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety stan... ED MARKEY The segregated schools of today are arguably no more equal than the segregated schools of the past. ED MARKEY People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by th... ED MARKEY It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventa... ED MARKEY The Brown decision promised that every child, regardless of the color of his or her skin, would have... ED MARKEY We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in ... ED MARKEY In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Kar... ED MARKEY However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also criti... ED MARKEY Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel ec... ED MARKEY First responders will be on the frontlines if there is a terrorist attack in our communities, and we... ED MARKEY Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and w... ED MARKEY We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones. ED MARKEY I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City o... ED HELMS I'm kind of embarrassed by how quickly I adjusted to L.A. I really love it. It's so pleasant... ED HELMS When you're playing a fictional character reacting to the real world, it's incredibly diffic... ED HELMS I had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure. ED HELMS When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, ... ED HELMS First there was the New Hampshire primary, and we had nearly a year leading up to it. And now, look!... ED HELMS Vulnerability is huge. I love to see that in characters. It's something I feel like a lot of my ... ED HELMS This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I&... ED HELMS I happen to think singing is hilarious, especially when it pops out at the wrong time. ED HELMS I'm a very jaded and cynical person. ED HELMS My friend and I sang an a cappella rendition of Extreme's 'More Than Words' at one of ou... ED HELMS I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have... ED HELMS You take a vacation to a place like Thailand and you're ready for the excitement of something ne... ED HELMS