I Am Quotes

I used to make up stuff in my bio all the time, that I used to be a professional ice-skater and stuff like that. I found it so inspirational. Why not make myself cooler than I am?

~ Stephen Colbert

I've been known to write 10 pages a day for 10 days running before I take a breath. I am not a disciplined writer. I'm one of those people who laughingly call themselves inspirational writers, which basically means someone who has no control over their own creative process.

~ Catherine Ryan Hyde

I am very conscious of who I am as an artist and as an inspirational person.

~ R. Kelly

Reading was very important to me as a kid. It was very inspirational to me. I went to a school where that wasn't encouraged so much, but my parents encouraged that, and it has made me part of who I am.

~ Sasha Grey

I think that the reason for my success is that I am really not aspirational. I am inspirational in that the people at home feel like they can really relate to me.

~ Rosie O'donnell

I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens, I have it there so nothing's forgotten.

~ Gabrielle Aplin

I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?

~ Zhuangzi

I am a dreamer. Seriously, I'm living on another planet.

~ Eva Green

Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.

~ Candace Parker

I am quite a dreamer. I think we all are dreamers. We all don't like to live a practical life all the time. There is a thin line between our hopes and dreams.

~ Rani Mukerji

Winners, I am convinced, imagine their dreams first. They want it with all their heart and expect it to come true. There is, I believe, no other way to live.

~ Joe Montana

I have crazy claustrophobic dreams, weird elevator dreams where the elevator closes in and all of a sudden I am lying down - oh my God, it's a casket. Just freaky stuff like that.

~ Dave Grohl

My new life goes beyond my dreams because my dream was Formula One and I achieved it. I'm a driver, I feel like a driver. I have won this race because I am alive.

~ Maria De Villota

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.

~ Zhuangzi

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.

~ René Descartes

I have had a dream indicating rather clearly that I am on the way to being hetero, though I don't accept it with much enthusiasm either awake or in the dreams.

~ Alan Turing

I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

~ Bob Dylan

Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.

~ Rudolph Valentino

The ideal of all Kosovo is membership in the E.U. and a permanent friendship with the United States. I believe and I am convinced our dreams will come true.

~ Atifete Jahjaga

I am, you know, really fighting for myself and my life. And I think the message that I could give to anybody is that it's never too late to start your life again and dream new dreams.

~ Jennifer Holliday

There's a line I have that our family was designed more for public than for private. But there are definitely some things that are only mine. I am someone who dreams at night, and you don't know what I'm dreaming.

~ Carrie Fisher

When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich.

~ Maya Angelou

I would honestly say that with all the awards and all the other things that I've done in my life, Dollywood is one of the greatest dreams that I've ever had come true - I am so proud of that I can't even begin to tell you, Dollywood is real special to me.

~ Dolly Parton

I am a person who has many dreams. But as soon as I accomplish one, I move on to the next. That's my fatal, absurd nature. Human beings are slaves to our dreams, and I am, too. Now I think I just want to share my musical proposal in its entire form.

~ Shakira

I am a person who has many dreams. But as soon as I accomplish one, I move on to the next. That's my fatal, absurd nature.

~ Shakira

A lot of people put pressure on themselves and think it will be way too hard for them to live out their dreams. Mentors are there to say, 'Look, it's not that tough. It's not as hard as you think. Here are some guidelines and things I have gone through to get to where I am in my career.'

~ Joe Jonas

So we see Edward as a young man on the road and he meets a giant and he brings the giant to a circus where he meets a Miss Calloway. He sees the woman of his dreams and I am the only one who knows who she is.

~ Danny Devito

All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are.

~ Alice Hoffman

In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.

~ Louise Brooks

I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.

~ Hedy Lamarr

I'm not funny. What I am is brave.

~ Lucille Ball

I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor and I am only learning now stupidly that you can't read tongue. When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn't read that way.

~ Michael Buble

I am often the brunt of my own humor.

~ Charles R. Swindoll

I'm a comedian, and I definitely see the humor in a lot of things. I am also sad a lot. I cry often and easily. I think you're supposed to feel all kinds of things.

~ Ellen Degeneres

What you see on stage is pretty much the way I am... a dry sense of humor.

~ Bob Newhart

People think I'm a very serious actor, which I am. But you know, if you don't have a sense of humor doing what I do, you perish.

~ Martin Landau

It's funny. People often compare me to other humor essayists. They're usually quite nice comparisons; I will accept those gladly. But I am always sort of appalled at the idea of being lumped with other, more chick-y female writers. And the truth is probably that neither comparison is accurate.

~ Sloane Crosley

I can't be as open on national television as I can when I'm having dinner with friends. But that doesn't mean the type of person I am is different. My values, my dislikes, my sense of humor are the same.

~ Matt Lauer

I enjoy 'Murphy Brown,' but I am shocked that people really like 'Married... With Children.' These shows are toilet humor, and none of them have good characters.

~ Jamie Farr

Guys usually like my sense of humor, and I am pretty down to earth. And I'm a driven person.

~ Kreayshawn