Matthew Ramsey Quotes

Maybe I am just a jerk.

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

It's funny, because I never think of myself as Little Miss All-Together.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

Normally I sit there in the films really hating watching myself. Loving watching the films, hating watching myself.

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

I'm not that interesting of a person.

My ego and my vanities have nothing to do with comedy.

I don't wake up and say, 'Gee, it's a nice day, and I'm a legend.'

I couldn't stand seeing myself on the screen.

Everybody thinks I am a narcissist. I am actually the opposite of that.

There was no image of the other biological half of myself. And as an artists, as a - as an - as a portraitist, the look of who you are was radically important to me.

A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust.

When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.

I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do.

People think I have an interesting walk. Hell, I'm just trying to hold my gut in.

There was a little bit of ham in me. And there's a lot of people say there's a lot of ham in me.

It's such a weird thing: to sit and look at yourself is so distracting to the psyche. It would be like me standing in front of a mirror and looking at myself all day, trying to find a flaw.

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

If I read the articles about me, and I didn't know me, I would think I was Satan.

I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it's fine. I think it's beautiful and a real work of art.

I don't know any people that like watching themselves. I prefer not to.

I don't watch my playbacks because I hate to see myself act.

When I think of myself, I'm definitely... I'm not like a comedian.

I suppose I sometimes used to act like I wasn't a human being... Sometimes I look back at myself and remember things I used to say, or my hairstyle, and I cringe.