Balthazar Getty Quotes

Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.

I don't feel I have an alter ego.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

I am a deeply superficial person.

At home, I'm the silliest cornball who talks way too much and wants to be quiet and left alone at the same time.

I was absent at the moment I took up the most space.

Sometimes I think that if I wasn't crazy... I'd go crazy.

I don't like myself you know. I love myself. I'm devoted to myself till my dying day. But I don't like myself.

He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.

I was constantly watching myself, my secret self, as dependent on my actions as my own personality

I'm pretty confident and, at the same time, I'm pretty insecure. I'm like a walking conflict.

Life may more than once call upon you to prove Who You Are by demonstrating an aspect of Who You Are Not.

Deep down I'm a lazy person in a constantly moving body.

I'm equal part genius, equal part buffoon.

I may be a real bad boy, but baby I'm a real good man.

I have no personality, or I have three, depending on how you look at it.

I say me, knowing all the while it's not me.

I have a very strong, probably slightly aggressive personality, and so that just ends up coming out regardless of what I try to do.

I don't like myself, I'm crazy about myself.

One realizes after a long time that, actually, we are contradictory, all of us.

The dictate of the light says: Know yourself and what you are. The dark replies, By all means, but then become afraid.

Essentially, I'm a very real person; good and bad. And the public image is one of being very good, I suppose. But one of the reasons I'm attracted to people like Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, Christ, to pacifism, is because naturally, I'm the guy that would not turn the other cheek - but, when people see you're attracted to that, they think you are that.

There's a part of you that you can get a hold of, and there's a part of you that you can never get a hold of, and those are opposite things. Who are you? Which one are you? You are combinations of opposites.

Busted. I'm a monster. Jev is my deceptively harmless-and shockingly handsome-alter ego.

I expected the illegible and the deeply buried in me to be read as if carved on my forehead, just as I expected the obvious and the ill-concealed to be hidden from view.