Nancy Kress Quotes

Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject.

I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself.

There is, I think, great difficulty in writing of one's self: it is almost impossible to present subjects where the chief actor must be conspicuous and not seem to be, or really be, egotistical.

Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.

You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.

I think your tendency when you play yourself is to accentuate something about you that you think is the funny thing about you.

At the beginning of 'The Hills,' I couldn't watch myself because I'm very critical and would pick myself to pieces. But with movies I feel like it's different because you're playing a character. So it's like watching yourself but not watching yourself.

We never see ourselves as others see us.

The minute I ever start thinking about what a character would do is the minute I bring my ego into play. It's the minute I'm putting a judgment on something.

Looking in the mirror is very strange; we see only what we choose to see, good or bad.

I feel like I have a kind of mirror blindness where it's hard for me to characterize or analyze my own work. I suspect I'm not unique in this regard.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

Balthazar Balsan is not a self-portrait. If he was, I'd have made the character more flattering.

I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don't know what we're like.

A mentor long departed told me that the greatest gift in political life, in any life, is to view yourself objectively, at arm's length, to make an assessment of yourself. So whom do I rely on? I rely on myself.

Most of what we say about ourselves is a wonderful piece of storytelling.

Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me.

I don't look at my work in a critical or analytical way; I just don't think of myself objectively. It doesn't interest me.

No one ever judges their own self.

The sad truth is, there's more Walter White in me than I'd care to admit, because if I truly was as kind as people think I am, I wouldn't be able to write Walter White.

It's true that all my novels have been versions of myself to some degree.

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

You can't supervise your own history.

I don't watch anything I'm in. I'm too critical.

You don't see yourself in the same way other people see you.