E. M. Forster Quotes

It's impossible not to constantly adjust the way you look at yourself.

Everybody goes home at the end of the day and looks at themselves in the mirror and sometimes they see things that they want to see that they like, and sometimes they see some things that they don't like.

I don't think I'm really a rude person, but now I see myself on television, I think, 'Oh, God, that is a bit strong.' And I wonder if I've always been like that and I haven't been aware of it.

I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.

I'm not good at watching myself.

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

Like most people, what I find irritating in others are my own faults.

I've always been fascinated by this idea of who we are versus who we want to be.

Unfortunately, at the end of the day, when you watch yourself on the screen, you are always you.

I find myself a bit boring because I somehow always wanted to be MSF.

It is often our own imperfection which makes us reprove the imperfection of others; a sharp-sighted self-love of others

Act like the person you conceive yourself to be.

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.

If I were somebody else looking at my character, I'd be like, "She's beautiful." I'm practicing. I'm not succeeding.

There's a lot of me in it. But the character is more egotistical. I'm also egotistical, but not the way the character is. This guy is successful, he has everything, but his wife has left him. The most important value - love - is missing. What is wrong with this institution called 'marriage'? What is wrong with this institution called 'the pursuit of happiness'?

Learn more about yourself! Make a self-esteem collage using pictures of other people you wish you were.

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.

As far as looking at myself on screen, I tend to pick out every single flaw that I could have or should have done better. I'm more of a cringer at first and when it is years down the road and out of my way, I can actually appreciate it somehow.

We are not greatly pleased that our friends should respect our good qualities if they venture to perceive our faults.

I can take critism, but if it's like 'I don't like you' then I want to know why people don't like me. Why do you hate me? What have I done?

As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.

I'm always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how they want to be seen. And the older you get, the world keeps telling you different things about yourself. And how people either adjust to those things and let go of adolescent notions. Or they dig in deeper.

My personality doesn't interest me.

It's a little dangerous for me to get outside myself and think about how I want people to see me.

You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.