Dan Chaon Quotes

Does what you think of you determine your worth?

I'm not that interested in what people make of it, or how people consider me. That's nothing to do with me.

I look at myself objectively and in a way I see myself as a commodity. Your name becomes somehow outside yourself. Now, when I'm at home being Mrs. Scarfe, that's when I'm most myself.

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

Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.

None of us are so much praised or censured as we think.

Everyone of us wakes up in the morning, goes to the bathroom, looks in the mirror and asks: "Who am I? Who am I today? Do I feel good enough? Do I feel big enough? Do I feel sexy enough?" Some days, the answer is 'yes' but sometimes it's not.

What I do now defines who I am as a woman and how people see me; they don't see me as a little girl.

In a way, you kind of get caught up in whatever image of yourself you think is out there.

I didn't think of myself as a tart, but I wouldn't argue with anyone who did.

It's a little dangerous for me to get outside myself and think about how I want people to see me.

Everything you think about yourself, everything you believe about yourself, is because you learned it.

What people think of me and my playing is up to them, not me.

People have different impressions of themselves, and where reality lies is somewhere in between.

You look in the mirror, but you don't see what you actually look like.

Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't know me, I think they do themself an injustice. Because, as a whole, I think I'm a good person.

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

Guilt is feeling bad about what you have done; shame is feeling bad about who you are - all it is, is muddling up things you have done with who you are.

I don't think I'm boring.

Women have said the most malicious, disgusting things about me. But I know that when somebody comments about you, good or bad, it is 99 percent of the time their projection of how they feel about themselves.

Any description of a person that comes from the outside is very hard to deal with. People don't like being summarised. It's nice to receive a compliment, but it makes me feel a bit uncomfortable.

You know, most people really don't know me.

It's difficult to see yourself up on screen without being a critic.

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

Well, I don't know what image people have of me.