Francis Quarles Quotes

I don't laugh at me. I used to. I used to get the giggles when I'd see myself. But now, I see myself onscreen, and I sure don't laugh.

I don't think I'm boring.

Supposedly I haven't changed.

I've got my feet firmly on the ground, I can't see life changing too much. I reckon more girls will talk to me at college and more people will look at me, but they know me for who I am.

In therapy, I see myself in the mirror differently.

People see us as no better than we are.

Who you are and what you think of yourself is constantly changing.

It's impossible not to constantly adjust the way you look at yourself.

Maybe some people look at me and just see a footballer, or a black footballer. But I am much more than this. I tell my best friends all the time, 'If you look at me as a footballer, and not as Little Kouli, and not as your friend, then I have failed in life.'

The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don't have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach.

As Mark Weiner puts it, whether you gain 50 pounds or lose 50 pounds, whether you have a sex change operation for that matter, that it doesn't matter, that there is some part of ourselves that we cannot escape.

What I do now defines who I am as a woman and how people see me; they don't see me as a little girl.

Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.

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.

I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.

Everything you think about yourself, everything you believe about yourself, is because you learned it.

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

The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.

If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful.

Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up.

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.

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

I've done a lot of things and I've been a lot of people, but now I've come to realize who I am.

I don't know whether these people are going to find themselves, but as they live their lives they have no choice but to face up to the image others have of them. They're forced to look at themselves in a mirror, and they often manage to glimpse something of themselves.

I feel like when people judge me they're not judging me, because they don't know who I am.