Jamie Oliver Quotes

As I walk'd by myself, I talk'd to myself, And myself replied to me; And the questions myself then put to myself, With their answers I give to thee.

I have never dissected my personal life. What sense would it make?

The bigger confrontation is the one an individual has with itself.

The searching for our selves is the most agonizing, isn't it? - and yet the most stimulating - and one simply cannot escape it.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

I am not very introspective.

I spend half my time just living my life, and the other half analyzing it.

When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.

I work because I have issues and questions and feelings and thoughts that I want to have a look at. I'm not in need of, or wanting, particularly, to know what other folk are up to.

I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.

I'm not going to lie, there are more interesting ways to spend your time than answering questions about yourself. But if there were no questions to ask me, I might have a beef with that.

Much of the time, we're transfixed by all of the ways we can reflect ourselves into the world. And we can barely find the time to reflect deeply back in on our own selves.

The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

I don't like to come at my character from some really technical place.

I'm an introspective dude.

When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.'

I've always been a very self-aware person.

I'm used to watching old movies of myself.

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.

I just want to live each moment, but it's kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze yourself constantly. But it's also good in that you are forced to think about things that you don't ordinarily think about. I think it's strange.

I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally.

If you do not like a certain behavior in others, look within yourself to find the roots of what discomforts you.