Peter Morgan Quotes

Realizing that our actions, feelings and behaviour are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality.

In therapy, I see myself in the mirror differently.

Is it possible to have negative self-awareness?

I don't make much of comparisons in general, it's not how I think people construct themselves and I don't think it's a healthy way of dealing with your own reality.

…Those who’ve marred their appearance in any way by their actions in life aren’t forced to witness that marring. If they were, they’d become self-conscious and be unable to concentrate on improving themselves.

There was a time when I was way too reliant upon other people's opinions and perspective of me. And I guess over time came to see how unhealthy that was. I mean it's almost like a sign of mental illness to base your self-worth on the opinions of complete strangers.

If we want to change what people think of us, then we have got to change.

If I didn't do what I do, I wouldn't be as young as I am.

You don't want to vilify your ego.

I think comedy comes more from a low sense of self-esteem, and I certainly have that.

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.

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.

I don't see myself as the perfect person at all.

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

Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.

Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.

One area I have a huge amount of trouble in is writing about myself. I get a heavy, almost depressed feeling.

It's a healthy thing to get some bad criticism. I'm still here and I'm fine, but I'd be lying if I said it didn't get to you reading the negative stuff.

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

I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.

I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing.

I used desperately to want to be a brooding hero from literature, but I'm optimistic, healthy and fair-haired.