Gillian Gilbert Quotes

There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.

There is, I think, great difficulty in writing of one's self: it is almost impossible to present subjects where the chief actor must be conspicuous and not seem to be, or really be, egotistical.

Balthazar Balsan is not a self-portrait. If he was, I'd have made the character more flattering.

There is no self-portrait of me.

Ego is simply an idea of who you are that you carry around with you.

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.

I would never create an image for myself; I'm not that clever.

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.

I think your tendency when you play yourself is to accentuate something about you that you think is the funny thing about you.

I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.

Well, I have never, ever Googled myself.

Born ham, that's basically me.

Am I an ego on legs? No I am not. Do I want to be seen out there all the time saying everything? No, I don't.

Every character I play has to be the hero of his own story, the way we're all heroes of our own lives.

Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.

Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories.

I think we all see ourselves as the heroes in our own lives.

I just don't see myself as the heroine in my own narrative.

To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.

Most of what we say about ourselves is a wonderful piece of storytelling.

I don't need to Google myself.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

Who you are and what you think of yourself is constantly changing.

I have never been interested in presenting myself.

Everybody has their own story - it's who you are. If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am!