
“I don't consider myself a “religious” person at all. I am, however, a person of enormous faith.”
Source: Take The Risk (2008), p. 134
Meaning of Life interview (2008)
Context: There are all sorts of transcendent response on offer but they to my mind are not necessary to call oneself religious. And obviously this is … semantics as much as anything else. But I do go ahead and consider myself a religious person.
“I don't consider myself a “religious” person at all. I am, however, a person of enormous faith.”
Source: Take The Risk (2008), p. 134
“Don't consider anyone smaller than you, because he only becomes a bad person by going ahead”
Source: https://en.everybodywiki.com/Parth_Siddhpura
Essay as "Mr. X" (1969)
Context: I do not consider myself a religious person in the usual sense, but there is a religious aspect to some highs. The heightened sensitivity in all areas gives me a feeling of communion with my surroundings, both animate and inanimate. Sometimes a kind of existential perception of the absurd comes over me and I see with awful certainty the hypocrisies and posturing of myself and my fellow men. And at other times, there is a different sense of the absurd, a playful and whimsical awareness. Both of these senses of the absurd can be communicated, and some of the most rewarding highs I've had have been in sharing talk and perceptions and humor. Cannabis brings us an awareness that we spend a lifetime being trained to overlook and forget and put out of our minds. A sense of what the world is really like can be maddening; cannabis has brought me some feelings for what it is like to be crazy, and how we use that word "crazy" to avoid thinking about things that are too painful for us. In the Soviet Union political dissidents are routinely placed in insane asylums. The same kind of thing, a little more subtle perhaps, occurs here: "did you hear what Lenny Bruce said yesterday? He must be crazy."
“I don't necessarily consider myself to be an icon, but I do consider myself to be a feminist.”
When asked if she considered herself to be a feminist icon – given the many strong female characters she portrayed — "Dallas Comic Con - May 2015 - The X Files - Gillian Anderson" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlIctMT6JpU/ (May 31, 2015)
2010s
Ibdb p.61. as quoted in Alexander, 1994:423
“Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty.”
I don’t mind the way I’m ageing. No reason to panic just yet. I think I look my age, and that’s fine. The lord God almighty has done me proud with my features which I'm proud of and have no desire to alter them. I say " let nature take its course ".
Marie Clare, Kate Winslet interview by Harvey Marcus on Thursday 30 April 2009 http://www.marieclaire.co.uk/celebrity/interviews/322173/kate-winslet-interview.html
“I hated myself for going, why couldn't I be the kind of person who stays?”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Response to Stephen Spender, on being asked what she considered her proudest accomplishment, as quoted in The Eloquent Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis : A Portrait in Her Own Words (2004) by Bill Adler, p. 5, and p. 232