I won’t let people write anything they want to about me.

‚Harry Potter‘ gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

One thing I hope I’ll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

I have practically no private life. I’m already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

I think all documentaries leave out areas of people’s lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored.

I don’t compare myself to anyone else; I don’t make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that’s okay by me.

If you’re nice to me I’ll never write anything bad about you.

Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.

I know who I am, I know what I can and can’t do. I know what I will and won’t do. I know what I’m capable of and I don’t agree to do things that I don’t think I can pull off.

Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

I’m not comfortable being around too many people. I don’t like being out in public too much. I don’t like going to bars. I don’t like doing celebrity stuff. So most of the characters I play are people who don’t always feel comfortable beyond their small circle of friends.

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

If you’re yelling you’re the one who’s lost control of the conversation.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

There are certain things that bother me and certain things that don’t. Personal attacks on me? I think I’m just so used to it.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

I realized why directors are such horrible people – in a way – because you want things to be right, and people will just not listen to you, and there is no time to be nice to people, no time to be delicate.

I try to very hard to avoid a situation where I would be eating cat or dog; I’ve managed to gracefully avoid that. It’s hypocritical of me and an arbitrary line, but one that I have managed to avoid crossing.

If you don’t stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards.

I don’t kiss nobody’s butt.

Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.

I don’t like people looking at someone else’s image.

Self-respect knows no considerations.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.

Nobody is my boss.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it’s that I’ve never been a kept woman.

Well I have a microphone and you don’t so you will listen to every damn word I have to say!

Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me… All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us. I never looked back there, but she was like, ‚Will you all just shut up!‘ And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, ‚What are you doing?!‘ I was like, ‚You better get up here! I don’t play the fighting games.‘

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can’t control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I’m just not going to go outside the house. I’m going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

Anonymous comments? You’re not in the arena, man. If you can’t say it to me in person in front of my kids, don’t say it.

A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.

There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. ‚Good pride‘ represents our dignity and self-respect. ‚Bad pride‘ is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

I’ve learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

People at Facebook are fairly used to the press being nice to us or not nice to us.

I am who I am. That’s why my friends and peers respect and appreciate me. I don’t change or cater my actions to fit my surroundings. I’m myself 24/7. People appreciate that.

I feel like I’m being watched. Always. Like, I want to tan topless somewhere, and I know I probably could never do that. Even if I’m upstairs in my bedroom, and the curtains are pulled, I feel like a paparazzo’s outside on a boat somewhere, or somebody’s peeping.

I’m old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I’d tell them where to put it.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That’s where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It’s having backbone.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

Confidentially, the type of male I find most enjoyable for a friend is one who has enough fire and assurance to speak up for his convictions.

I never like being touched, ever. People used to say I held my breath when they were hugging me. I still do.

I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody’s ego, that’s it, game over.