George R. R. Martin Quotes

I'm quite looking forward to the fact that people know me as Richard rather than Craig.

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

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

I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.

I'd change nothing in my career path. I was never built for being a handsome teenage star. That's just not in my psyche, I think. I would have hated to have grown up famous.

When I was a freshman, I was 5 feet 9 and totally skinny as a pole. Knock-knees and bad hair. Then, over that summer, I grew up a little bit. Not that I was some super beauty, but at least I didn't look like I was 10 anymore and had a little self-confidence.

I didn't really have an identity crisis because I really, really knew who I always wanted to be But I definitely had a lot of problems with my body. I was very skinny, and I guess my body was sort of pre-pubescent, but when I grew hips and thighs, I just didn't know where I was in the world. It was weird.

I'm a perfectly good carrot that everyone is trying to turn into a rose. As a carrot, I have good color and a nice leafy top. When I'm carved into a rose, I turn brown and wither.

It was not the case that one thing morphed into another, child into woman. You remained the person you were before things happened to you. The person you were when you thought a small cut string could determine the course of a year. You also became the person to whom certain things happened. Who passed into the realm where you no longer questioned the notion of being trapped in one form. You took on that form, that identity, hoped for its recognition from others, hoped someone would love it and you.

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.

I have no issues with my identity.

I'm not worried any more about changing people's view of me.

I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.

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.

We're all just trying to fit in and find ourselves, particularly when we're growing up.

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 was a weed. Such a skinny little weed. I just couldn't put on weight; I couldn't put on muscle. I was the oddest shape. And I thought that was it: that's how I'd look for the rest of my life. And I'd beat myself up about it so much. But you change an awful lot. You're 16. Your body's not even halfway to what it'll end up being.

It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different person. Well, I'm still the same person, but I'm different.

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.

Most of my life I didn't feel very normal. There's definitely been some moments where I feel like, all right, I've finally graduated and I'm a normal lady.

I feel like I didn't know who I was when I was 15. I don't feel like you're who you are for life, not even when you're 20.

I don't look the same as I did 20 years ago, nor should I.