Quotes About Individuality

The goal of the actor is to internalize, to assimilate, and to integrate the accent so that it becomes simply the character's natural individual way of speaking. When

The rage for 'identity' too often bespeaks a preference for simplicity rather than for complexity.

We don't always get to decide what others see when they sum us up or reduce us to a caricature of the rich and various selves we think we have fashioned.

Assertion, even self-assertion, does not invariably bespeak an urge to annihilate the opposition or to wield coercive power.

You can spend too much time wondering which of identical twins is the more alike.

We are each a dozen people who were all the same child.

What we seek in the end is not unconditional love but a love for which we, uniquely in all the world, meet all the conditions.

In the end, success is not about who you know, it's about you know who.

The human species is made up of seven billion subspecies each consisting of one specimen.

Perhaps God gives us a physical body so that every time we change our mind, we won't be someone else.

There is a limit to how much you can change to be liked for who you really are.

There are people who live their whole lives on the default settings, never realizing you can customize.

Though confined to our destiny, we do get to pick the color scheme.

There is a public me and a private me, who, if they were separate people, probably wouldn't exchange Christmas cards.

I'm right-handed, whereas the fellow in my mirror is left-handed. I start shaving from the left; he starts from the right. Differences only in perception, but religious wars have been fought over such.

We are each the star of our own situation comedy, and, with luck, the screwball friend in somebody else's.

Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your expectations will be in breathless pursuit.

Of what use to get what you want if you must become someone else to get it.

All your life you pretend to be someone else, and it turns out that you were someone else pretending to be you.

I am told to just be myself, but as much as I have practiced the impression, I am still no good at it.

Why try to be someone you're not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required.

Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are.

Ton public n'est ni le public des livres, ni celui des spectacles, ni celui des expositions, ni celui des concerts. Tu n'as à satisfaire ni le goût littéraire, ni le théâtral, ni le pictural, ni le musical.

Let nothing be changed and all be different.