Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

My personal life is a big part of who my character is.

How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

I think it's somebody else's job to decide what my image is.

I feel like I've come off as an outspoken woman. Sometimes I think I've come off as confrontational. But I feel like it's been pretty fair. Those are parts of me.

More and more, people probably associate me in this world of comedy and these confident, brassy, big ladies, which I love, but my insides and who I feel like internally and the kind of work that I hope to continue doing feels very different from that.

I don't want to be a personality.

Filmmakers are stuck with my glamorous image. Even if I sit in track pants and a T-shirt, I will still look glamorous. That's the way I am. But there's more to me. I'm a real person.

The people who watch you on the court often don't know you as an actual person - a human being.

What I do shows people what kind of person I am.

The world will find out that part of your character which concerns it: that which especially concerns yourself, it will leave for you to discover.

Everyone we attract into our life is a mirror for us in certain ways. All of our relationships reflect certain parts of us. We all attract certain people into our life who have developed qualities opposite to the ones we are most identified with. In other words, they mirror our disowned selves, and we mirror theirs.

The thing that is most interesting about people is the way they are when no one is looking at them or the way they are when they are in private.

One of the other reasons for writing this book [My Beloved World] was to hold on to the person you first met. More of the world knows about me now and follows me in a way that never happened before. I didn't want me, the inside of me, to change. Because I liked Sonia, the Sonia who has been. So another reason for writing the book was to hold on to that - whatever the best in Sonia was, to try to capture it.

People say when you're in love, you don't need etiquette. Well, you need it then more than anything. Or they say, "At home I can just be myself." What they mean is they can be their worst selves... They always mean they will save all their anxiety about how to behave for somebody like the head waiter of a restaurant, someone they'll never see again.

Art is a game only if you playat it, a mirror that reflects from the inside out.

Never does a man portray his character more vividly than when proclaiming the character of another.

There is Harlan Ellison the human being, who takes a crap a couple of times a day, and who farts, and who eats chicken croquettes, if I can find them. And then there is the writer, this writer-person, who is a much finer person than I. Much more orderly, much more meaningful. Worthier, than I [am].

Music is reflection of self.

We are the mirror - As well as the face in it.

There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.

There are things that you can't do - like writing letters to a part of yourself. To your feet or hair. Or heart.

Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are.

You have to self-reflect. If you forget who you actually are, then what's the use of even looking in the mirror.

As I don't consider myself exceptional, but simply a storyteller, each of my stories is really a period of my life. Deep down I feel that criticism of my work-which is the most sincere and authentic vision of myself-is unsuitable and immodest, whether it is favorable or unfavorable.