'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.
The self is hateful.
It just seemed hedonistic when I first started acting. It was a pleasurable thing. But as I look back on it now, I understand that it was a journey of the self for me.
Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever be.
Having a strong sense of self is fundamental to you, no matter what you're doing. I don't care if you're a stay at home mom raising kids or if you're the CEO of a corporation. It's really important for your survival.
I'm channelling my 14-year-old self. She's thinking about putting on her big hoop earrings and baggy pants and going to the mall downtown.
For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.
The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.
We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the processing power of our brains.
There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
I'm a really goofy person most of the time, and I have to sometimes temper my hyper self on set.
Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.
The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.
Modern science tells us that the conscious self arises from a purely physical brain. We do not have immaterial souls.
Here is where our real selfhood is rooted, in the divine spark or seed, in the image of God imprinted on the human soul. The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence.
We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.
Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.
Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.
I really like Adam Curtis' 'Century of Self.' It's about how artists have failed the general public by being so exclusive, like being in an echo chamber. I was definitely more like that in my early twenties - my music was completely inaccessible.
The concert is a polite form of self induced torture.
