Xavier Niel Quotes

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

Did I express my personality? I think that's quite unimportant because it's not people's selves but what they have to say about life that's important.

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

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.

On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.

And I, uh, I wonder how anybody can think his personality changes with his success. I've had quite a bit of success but I feel that I'm just the same person as I always was.

If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

I like to write when I feel I'm the real me.

Everything is a piece of me, a moment of my life.

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.

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.

I'm not what I make.

Sometimes you've got to put your realistic glasses on and see who you are.

We get older, and we get more wrinkles, but fundamentally, we stay the same... You have the same fears and doubts and concerns and dreams and passions and all those kinds of things, so I feel like you don't change as much as you think you do.

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

For me personally, I just don't have anything to prove anymore. I know exactly who I am, I know that I'm intelligent and acting dumb or acting like whatever. If that's funny to me because I know it's false then so be it.

I don't know if anyone necessarily looks at themselves and what they do as being terribly significant one way or another.

In the beginning of 'Jersey Shore,' for sure, that was the real Mike. That's the Mike that I know, that's the Mike I love. And that's the Mike I strive to be every day.

My self encompasses a lot of different things.

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.

No matter where you go, you always see yourself in the rearview mirror.

We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us

Use your brains, your common sense, and do not become an object. The way you look is important, but who you are and how you project it is eventually who you will become and how you will appear.

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