As for facial hair, I think I decided it was a good look after graduate school. I always shave it myself and trim my own beard. I change the look depending on the role. For ‘Million Dollar Baby,’ I had no facial hair. For ‘Men in Black 3,’ I had no facial hair but did wear a wig.
In business, I think the most important thing is to position yourself for long-term and not be too impatient, which I am by nature, and I have to control myself.
I’m in competition with myself and I’m losing.
The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.
I like to keep some things to myself, because its called a private life, not public.
Responsibility for me is to be myself – which is not perfect.
I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people’s minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.
I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‘What a waste of energy.’ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.
When I feel good about myself, things start happening for myself. When you look up, you go up.
I’ve always been an unselfish guy, and that’s the only way I know how to play on the court and I try to play to the maximum of my ability – not only for myself but for my teammates.
I see myself as half country boy and half city boy, so I need both to balance me out. I couldn’t spend all of my time in either place.
I feel like I’m wasting time if I repeat myself.
I do not need a trophy to tell myself that I am the best.
I always teach myself calm and visualization stuff.
Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away.
I’m not somebody that’s trying to be somebody else. I’m being myself for the most part and people respect that.
The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.
Women’s art, political art – those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I’m resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist.
I’m a King. Regardless of what I’ve been through and what I’ve done, I present myself as a King. And I get that respect from people, from everybody I deal with. I worked my whole life to establish that respect and make sure I get that respect.
If I meet other people and criticize their weaknesses, I rob myself of higher cognitive power. But if I try to enter deeply and lovingly into another person’s good qualities, I gather in that force.
I think of myself not just as a dreamer, but as a dream chaser.
I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.
I had seen my buddies crash and burn. Keith Moon died, and I always thought that was the way he wanted to go. John Belushi was a dear friend. A lot of the guys that I ran with were ending up dead, and I saw myself right on schedule to do that. I had some moments of clarity – once in a while.
My dad taught me, like, no matter what, when I go out and play against these bigger players, just to be myself. I knew that I was good enough and that I had the ability to. I never shy away from anyone, and I don’t think anyone should.
I refuse to be outworked, and I consider myself to have the heart of a lion.
When I set myself a target, I aim to reach it.
I don’t consider myself an artist. I consider myself a very opinionated man who uses words as fighting tools.
My classmates would copulate with anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself.
I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.
I never thought of myself as like, a funny person.
But we have seen amazing things, good and bad, happen in this game, so you can never take anything for granted. I certainly don’t. There are no guarantees, whether it is good bad or indifferent you just work hard to push the odds in your favour as regards myself and the team.
I’d kill myself if I was as fat as Marilyn Monroe.
I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.
I have never in my life found myself in a situation where I’ve stopped work and said, ‘Thank God it’s Friday.’ But weekends are special even if your schedule is all over the place. Something tells you the weekend has arrived and you can indulge yourself a bit.
Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
I hate all the old pictures of me before 2010 – and they are always the first ones to come up. That’s why I don’t Google myself, man.
Everyone has a right to their own opinion about me, and that’s fine. I’m just going to keep being myself and living my life. That’s all I can do.
I’m just trying to stay within myself every day and keep going.
I have respect for what other people believe. What I believe in my own life is that it’s a search for how I can do things better, whether it’s being a better man or a better father or finding ways for myself to improve.
I always imagine myself as a bride who will wear a gown, with a long train and veil.
I dress myself, not to impress, but for comfort and for style.
I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.
I’m just myself. That’s the best way to put it.
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.
The divine is God’s concern; the human, man’s. My concern is neither the divine nor the human, not the true, good, just, free, etc., but solely what is ‘mine,’ and it is not a general one, but is – ‘unique,’ as I am unique. Nothing is more to me than myself!
I gave myself permission to feel and experience all of my emotions. In order to do that, I had to stop being afraid to feel. In order to do that, I taught myself to believe that no matter what I felt or what happened when I felt it, I would be okay.
If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I’m not frightened by anyone’s perception of me.
I’ve always been multi-cultural myself. I’m not black and I’m not white and I’m not pink and I’m not green. Eartha Kitt has no color, and that is how barriers are broken.
I try to make myself happy, no, because I know that if I’m not happy, my colleagues are not happy and my shareholders are not happy and my customers are not happy.
I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me – shapes and ideas so near to me – so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn’t occurred to me to put them down.
I don’t consider myself to be bigger than nobody else in this game, so I’m not here to tell people what to rap about.
Just being a commentator is not as easy as people think with going out there and talking for three hours. So, I don’t call myself a commentator: I call myself an analyst.
I am what I am. I have not deliberately built an image for myself.
Even at my lowest point, when I’ve wanted to give up, I know that I have to believe in myself because I’m all that I have.
Every day, I like to wake up and remind myself to be grateful of the simple things.
I always tell myself, ‘There are so many things you regret doing or eating, but you never regret a workout.’ I always feel better after a workout. I have more energy, and mentally, I’m in a better place.
Even if I might say to myself, ‘I don’t need health insurance. I won’t get sick,’ the fact is, as human beings with mortality, we are going to get sick, and it’s unpredictable when.
Each goal, each win, going to different buildings, the rivalries, the excitement – it is something. I try to catch myself, you know, in the warm-ups, when you’re on the line and the anthem and you get to some milestones and stuff. It’s such a neat experience.
I want to always find new ways of reinventing myself.
Every night on the court I give my all, and if I’m not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.
I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
When I have a chance to go back to my village, I always remind myself where I came from.
I created myself. I have taught myself so much.
I do envision myself having kids one day, and I always wanted a little girl.
Most people, including myself, keep repeating the same mistakes.
