Michael Scott Quotes

Mature? Yeah, I get told that a lot. I don't know if it's true. I guess I try to be bright.

I wish I was more like my character. In character, I am the queen. I am strong. I am confident, sometimes cocky. I'm hard to beat. Out of character, I am a daughter, a sister, an aunt, a best friend and just the girl next door that likes Ben & Jerry's ice cream.

I've never thought of myself in terms of an identity. I'm always baffled when I encounter someone who gives the impression about being confident about a particular defined identity.

I've never considered myself as a legend - just a simple man with heart.

I think I'm smart, and I know I was a good mom. But there wasn't a lot I could point to and say, that's why I'm special.

One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.

I like when people know exactly, have a good sense of themselves, and know exactly what's good for them, I admire that, but I don't have anywhere near that kind of perspective on my own.

I wonder how I seem to them. They must see someone I don't see. Someone capable and strong. Someone I can't be; someone I can be.

There was a time when I just felt like a superwoman. I was like, 'I got Jesus! I ain't afraid!' But, the truth is, I want to do things right, and sometimes I am afraid that I'm not good enough or that I'm not going to handle something right.

I wish I had more of the hero gene, but I don't think I'd be very good at playing one.

I am not overconfident.

Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.

I am not a hero.

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.

I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. The minute anybody presumes that they are heroes, they get their boots taken away from them and buried in the sand.

It's not like I have all the answers.

You can feel I am whatever you want to feel I am. God knows who I am, and I know who I am.

I don't know if I'm so righteous.

Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.

I don't really consider myself a writer.

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

I don't see myself as a visionary at all.

I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.