Leon Russell Quotes

It's occurred to me I need to laugh at myself more, and that I don't need to be some sad folk singer all the time. I don't want to be the queen of pain.

I look at old performance videos now, and it's really funny - I thought I was such a gangster!

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

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

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.

For myself, I am very small indeed in my own eyes.

In the past, my aspirations were as arty as they could get, and I'm really embarrassed by it.

I went through awkward, chubby, total weirdo phases.

I've done a lot of dumb things in my life.

When I was young, I was stupid, and I thought maybe I would write the fancy stuff.

Mary Katherine Gallagher is an exaggerated version of me, how I felt when I was little.

But I had a strong reaction to my first three albums and I struggle with them now, as an adult. It's very much the same as looking at your teenage photos in high school.

My first media interview was when I was a high school freshman and I was set to compete at state champs. The interview was the first occasion people had heard me on TV. When I watched back the recording on TV, I thought, 'Wow, is that what I sound like?' I didn't like the sound of my voice.

I don't take myself too seriously, as I think I used to years ago, when I was younger.

If I started thinking too much about how influential I've been, then I'd be more of a turd than I already am.

I feel it's important to point out that I've earned my humility by being a jackass - like, I trip and fall on my face and say, "Oh, right. Don't think you're a big shot, because you've got a bloody nose now." So it's hard to say.

It's hard for me to take myself too seriously when I'm constantly experiencing firsthand what an incredible gimp I can be.

I need to look like an idiot at least twice a day to keep myself humble.

Some people don't even notice. "Oh, you sound exactly like you did!" And I say, "OK, if that's what you want to believe, that's fine."

Sometimes I'll watch an old movie on television and, once in a while, one of mine, such as April Showers, will come on and I'll watch it. And you know something? I'm always amazed at what a lousy actress I was. I guess in the old days we just got by on glamour.

Marry, sir, they praise me and make an ass of me. Now my foes tell me plainly I am an ass; so that by my foes, sir, I profit in the knowledge of myself, any by my friends I am abused; so that, conclusions to be as kisses, if your four negatives make your two affirmatives, why then, the worse for my friends, and the better for my foes.

"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."

Part of my gestalt is that I still feel a little bit like a wallflower. Even in my own life. I talk about myself behind my back.

I've been awkward forever. I have really low expectations for myself. When I do perform to some sort of social standard, I leave feeling really comfortable. I'm either so awkward that I look retarded or I'm so awkward that everyone else feels retarded.

One's own vanities and humiliations I find a delicious subject for conversation. Things said of me behind my back I don't enjoy, and don't listen to them.