Paddy Chayefsky Quotes

It's spooky to look at yourself, because you are never quite what you think you are. And you are never as good looking as the person you are acting with, or something like that. So I learned to stay away from it because it was giving me more negative feelings than positive ones.

There's a constant struggle between my ears about who I am and what I mean to the world.

A man's worth is what he is divided by what he thinks he is.

Do you ever wake up in the morning, look in the mirror and think, something's not accurate?

Am I a 'woman of action'? I don't think of myself that way.

There's a discrepancy between what you think you are and what other people think you are.

I think I see myself differently than most people see me.

When I was a kid, I used to think about what my worth was.

I always have a hard time describing myself.

How you perceive yourself is how others will see you.

If you go too far down the rabbit hole of what people think about you, it can change everything about who you are.

I've given up trying to understand what people think about me.

I don't think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.

What is the image you have of yourself?

I've got an age that I do think of myself.

The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.

If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which have made me what I am?

Does what you think of you determine your worth?

See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds. Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.

I don't have all that great an awareness of how people see me in life. I don't find myself thinking about it a lot.

I wonder how I seem to them. They must see someone I don't see. Someone capable and strong. Someone I can't be; someone I can be.

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

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

I think most of us become self-critical as soon as we become self-conscious.