John Henrik Clarke Quotes

But no man's a hero to himself.

Everybody perceives me because of my career that I'm a movie star, or I'm this model, but I'm still the same person I was when I was a little girl.

This game doesn't define who I am as a person.

You gotta know what you are, who you are and how you want to be portrayed.

I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.

I think I don't view myself as an author. I view myself as a person. I view anything as part of being a person, so I feel okay with "marketing" or other things like that.

Perhaps this is what we mean by sanity: that, whatever our self-admitted eccentricities might be, we are not the villains of our own stories. In fact, it is quite the contrary: we play, and only play, the hero, and in the swirl of other people's stories, insofar as these stories concern us at all, we are never less than heroic.

The treatment you permit reveals the portrait you have of yourself.

Release yourself from the power you've invested in your mirror and those around you - take control of who you are and how you feel!

We live our lives based on who we think we are.

If Chester had a failing, it was that he believed people were what they thought they were.

We're the same! Even Sonya says we are. We've always been the same, and we're both acting the same stupid way now! We hold ourselves to higher standards than everyone else.

It is in most cases more difficult to make intelligent people believe that you are what you are not, than really to become what you would appear to be.

I'm not saying that people shouldn't go out to football games and drink beer and have a good time, I do it myself. But, at the same time, people are so apathetic and that shows me that they don't care about themselves. They have no self-image. Their image is projected to them via the television and that is where they make decisions about who they are according to what the public says they ought to be.

People say my ego is grand. I think it's in proportion to me.

You may wish that some parts of (your face) were different, but the actual fact is shown in the mirror. Now, can you look at your conditioning in a similar way?

Don't confuse who you are with the results that you produce.

Each person tells you who they think they are, and who they think you are.

The way you see me is the way I am.

It's hard to judge yourself. Each Essence cover represents a different special moment in my life. One is about keeping it sexy in my 40s, so I'm not mad about that either.

Use your brains, your common sense, and do not become an object. The way you look is important, but who you are and how you project it is eventually who you will become and how you will appear.

Every man is the hero of his own song.

I don't know how much of a natural human I am. Y'know, the truth is, I never set out to do that, and I don't think of myself like that. I don't think like that. It's not really about promotion - I don't really understand the idea of promotion, talking to a camera for more money. That's just money. And I like money, don't get me wrong. I don't know. I don't get it. I don't understand it as much as you don't understand me, I think.

All that matters is how you see yourself.

A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.