Diana Quotes

I look at myself objectively and in a way I see myself as a commodity. Your name becomes somehow outside yourself. Now, when I'm at home being Mrs. Scarfe, that's when I'm most myself.

I'm interested in how we understand ourselves in our relatioships and how we define ourselves.

You don't wanna walk around and say, 'I'm somebody's niece, I'm somebody's cousin, I'm somebody's daughter. Who are you?' And I think that's always the challenge when you grow up in a well-known family, is ultimately, you have to face yourself in the mirror and say, 'Who are you? What have you done?'

I don't know about an awful lot of stuff. I'm not educated. I left school when I was 16, with no qualifications. The thing that I do know about is my feelings and what I think of the world and what I think of me.

Who you are as a person has to do with what you think and how you feel. It has to do with how you love and how you care for people.

'Who do you think you are?' That's the big one, isn't it? A flourishing life depends on how you answer that.

You should never be defined by what you do, by the things you have; you've got to define yourself by who you are and who you impact and how you impact people. And that's the thing I try to get across to my players.

I've never thought of myself as just an actor.

I don't need much of a character in my life. I've already got one; my family knows who I am, and I don't have a reason to make an impression on the world around me unless it's in a professional context. Acting is not a personal experience; it's a job.

People always say that I'm just a beautiful face. So immediately, I knew what I wanted. I wanted to be recognized to be more than that.

How you perceive yourself is how others will see you.

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Your success will have everything to do with how you perceive yourself, because how you perceive yourself is how others will perceive you, too.

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?

We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.

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'?

The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.

But this show reminds me that there are other aspects to me besides the fact that I'm a funny chick.

I've come to believe that whoever I am didn't start on December 14, 1946, and isn't going to end on whatever that mysterious date is in the future.

It's easy to forget who you are.

What I do now defines who I am as a woman and how people see me; they don't see me as a little girl.

Being an actress hasn't made me insecure. I was insecure long before I declared I was an actress.

I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else who can say this.

Everything you think about yourself, everything you believe about yourself, is because you learned it.

I've read a lot of different versions of myself - and all of them are true because it's all opinion, and they're as accurate as it can ever be. But I don't think that I've been deft at hiding parts of my personality.