Ray Bradbury Quotes

I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.

Women always want to be what they're not: If you're the pretty girl, you want to be the quirky girl. If you're the smart girl, you want to be the pretty girl.

If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.

...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.

Yes, what is it like? Certainly not like she dreamed. But maybe that's okay. We want what we want. At home, she works herself into a frenzy worrying about what she isn't--and perhaps loses track of just where she is.

I am not confident unless I am playing someone else.

I've never considered myself cool, and I don't think I ever will be. Honestly, it's better that way. It's much less pressure.

I always feel as if I'm a disappointment: that people want a grand dame in furs like Barbara Taylor Bradford.

I have no issues with my identity.

I'm not worried any more about changing people's view of me.

I didn't think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I'm not put together like the other chaps.

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.

When I was younger, my father told me not to pigeonhole the way that I perceive myself.

I think I've always been ambitious. It just looks different on me. You know, I have friends who are actresses who go to every party they possibly can to be photographed and really try to make every connection they can, and I admire that and sometimes I wish I had a little bit more of that. Sometimes I feel like I don't have enough ambition.

I'm quite looking forward to the fact that people know me as Richard rather than Craig.

That whole sex symbol thing I never took seriously to begin with. Thank goodness, or I'd be suffering right now because it's out of your hands what happens to you with age.

On a good day I think I'm handsome, on an average day I'm average. I'm a man's man so I don't necessarily know how cute we're supposed to be.

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

It's not hard to keep up the image we chose. It's not hard to stay yourselves.

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

I'm not as cool as I'm supposed to be.

I felt like I got more comfortable on 'Idol' when I just started being myself and not trying to be what I thought I had to be.

I'm happy that I'm finally getting some lines in my face. I always looked too young for the kind of roles I wanted. It was constraining. My face didn't fit my innards until I reached 40.

I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it's fine. I think it's beautiful and a real work of art.