Evan Rachel Wood Quotes

When I watch myself on camera, in any capacity - being interviewed, performing, 20 years ago or yesterday - there's a part of me that really doesn't grasp that it's me.

To me, self-description is a calamity.

If I see a movie on TV that I'm in, I usually will watch it for that reason: It's like I'm watching another person.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

When I watch myself in movies I go, 'My God.'

My personality doesn't interest me.

Personally, people know themselves very poorly.

I was never interested in looking at myself in an aesthetic mirror. My intention was always to get away from myself, though I knew perfectly well that I was using myself. Call it a little game between 'I' and 'me.'

I don't cast somebody that I think is like my younger self.

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

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

I don't really have an aversion to watching myself. I think I've been doing it for long enough that I have a system of separating it in my brain from my egotistical neuroses for the most part.

I don't find myself intriguing.

I hope that when you see my work, you are looking at yourself looking.

I don't really watch video of myself. Yeah, I don't really - I never really have.

We're not the best about knowing what's the most interesting about ourselves.

Beijing was a huge slap in the face, and it forced me to look at myself. I have to realise that this is my life.

Can I do an impression of me? I don't think I can. It would be the most self-confronting thing you could ever do.

...fact was she knew more about them than she knew about herself, having never had the map to discover what she was like. Could she sing? (Was it nice to hear when she did?) Was she pretty? Was she a good friend? Could she have been a loving mother? A faithful wife? Have I got a sister and does she favor me? If my mother knew me would she like me? (140)

From childhood I was compelled to concentrate attention upon myself. This caused me much suffering, but to my present view, it was a blessing in disguise for it has taught me to appreciate the inestimable value of introspection in the preservation of life, as well as a means of achievement.

I looked at myself in that window, oblivious to all the people around me and I stared and smiled that particular smile. You know that smile that seems to knock you and tell you how pathetic you are? That's the smile I was smiling.

I view myself in the narrowest possible terms, but I don't watch anything I've been in, and I don't read reviews or analysis of movies I've been in, or my plays.

Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.

I find myself fascinating.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.