If you’re always under the pressure of real identity, I think that is somewhat of a burden.

I know I do not exaggerate, unconsciously and unintentionally, the scantiness of my resources and the difficulty of my life… I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a vagabond.

It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

There’s no reality except the one contained within us. That’s why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one’s self.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

He knows my limitations and where I’m a good wife and a good mom.

You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you’re obsessed with yourself, and I’m not – you can become unhinged so easily.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

Hatred is self-punishment.

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.

When the whole world has their eyes on you, if you say something that doesn’t truly come from your spirit and your soul, or if you wear something that doesn’t come from your spirit and your soul, it’s an injustice to your position. And so, I’m really myself every single day and I do it because I know my fans would want me to.

I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life. My way of dealing with frustration is to shut down and to think and speak logically.

I’m not going to say I’m cool, because I don’t really feel that. I just don’t care at all, and I guess that’s what people think is cool.

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

You need to understand what works best for your own body.

Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don’t really know me at all.

I’m actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, ‚Man, I said too much.‘ It’s hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.

Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I’m quite shy.

My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people’s throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way – pouty.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‚Ego‘.

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people’s minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

Courage is grace under pressure.

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.

My writing is jagged and harsh, I want it to remain that way; I don’t want it smoothed out.

Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

I think I’ve developed, as many people do, this sense of, ‚Don’t say the wrong thing, or else people will point at you and laugh.‘

Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one’s own desires through which one listens.

I think every entertainer’s had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can’t remember everything all the time, and especially if you’re having hard times personally, things going on that you – you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that’s going on. I feel like I’m in my own bubble.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

I hate being called an ‚icon.‘ I just don’t like it. That’s all there is to it.

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

Proud 2 Pay – that’s something that distinguishes me, that’s something that defines me, and we’re going to keep that going.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

I never wanted to look pretty on stage and sing about something we’ve all heard about before.

I guess if I’m a product, either you’re chocolate, you’re vanilla or you’re butterscotch. You can’t be all three.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

Little things affect little minds.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

My fans don’t feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I’m going through now, they’ll hear about it on a record someday. They’ll hear the real story. There’s a little bit of lag time. It’s not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it’s much more accurate.

I’m tired of fighting. I’ve always known that I can’t be an action star all my life.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn’t do to upset one’s own vanity.

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.