John McEnroe Quotes

I don't think of myself as an evil monster and I hope I'm not.

I know I may have done some bad things, but I'm not a bad person.

I've always said I think I'm a totally normal guy.

I don't think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.

It demeans you to cover rotten meat with honey. I know what I am. What would you want with a monster?" "Everything.

If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which have made me what I am?

It's spooky to look at yourself, because you are never quite what you think you are. And you are never as good looking as the person you are acting with, or something like that. So I learned to stay away from it because it was giving me more negative feelings than positive ones.

Do you ever wake up in the morning, look in the mirror and think, something's not accurate?

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.

If I knew me as somebody else, I would hate me just as much. Why have a double standard?

Hey Rid?" She stopped and turned to look at him, almost ruefully. Like she couldn't help what she was any more then a shark could help being a shark, but if she could... "Yeah, Shrinky Dink?" "You're not all bad." She looked right at him and almost smiled. "You know what they say. Maybe I'm just drawn that way.

I think that deprecation part is a very important aspect because when someone looks into themselves, if they're going to be honest, they're going to see parts that are humiliating as well as parts that they might feel really great about. Take Lucas Samaras again, who made a lot of self-portraits. He makes one self-portrait where he is looking directly into the camera and looks so intense and cool. He says in an interview, "I wanted to present the best version of myself."

Am I a 'woman of action'? I don't think of myself that way.

I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, 'Am I good?'

When someone says to you, 'Oh, I don't take a good picture,' what they mean is they haven't come to terms with how they look. They take a fine picture, it's just that their image of how they think they look is not in touch with the reality.

I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.

I see myself out of my own eyes, which means I have no idea what's going on the other way around. I just think I try to be a good person - and I fail.

Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

I think generally I'm a pretty good person if I had to grade myself. Or toot my own horn.

It's hard for me to characterise myself. I think I'm balanced. Some people might say I'm cold-hearted.

I feel it's important to show that one thing that you do doesn't define you as a human being. It doesn't mean there aren't ramifications or you shouldn't pay for that but its not who you are.

Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness.

I can be really annoying, but I also feel like I'm a nice person.