Quotes About Self

Just being a normal person and having a social life involves a lot of dishonesty for me.

It is possible to assemble a narrative for yourself, brokenly, on social media, only seeing what you want to look at.

Anyone close to me will be familiar with my frustrations with certain aspects of social media: the behaviour it encourages and attitudes towards the self it can breed.

Despite my high profile on social media, I'm a private person.

The image of myself that I give on social media isn't actually who I am; it's not 100 percent me, obviously.

The Ricky that the public see, whether it be on screen as a character, in public, or on social media, is very outgoing, and I'm a bit of a class clown. Then those who are closest to me know that I can be very sensitive. I can be quite insecure about myself.

With a fractured sense of self, we come to depend on what people feed back to us - often mediated through social networks - not what we are. We have complex identities but may become less able to act as a subject - confident in what we really are.

I could release myself into acting in a way that I was not released socially.

I did struggle with what I want to say socially, but it's important to reflect where I'm at mentally.

Multiple characters' opinions on societal roles, as well as their perceptions of themselves and others, help me lose myself in whatever strange and wonderful setting I'm reading about.

There's a reason that all societies and cultures and small bands of humans engage in myth-making. Fundamentally, it is to help us understand ourselves.

Our identities really are a constant negotiation between the story we tell about ourselves and the narrative our societies like to recite.

If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.

I was always Armie. There couldn't be a 90-year-old Armand and a 9-day-old one. And I heard enough jokes about baking soda.

There's a softer and harder person in everyone, depending on the time.

But then I realized, I think maybe we're too preoccupied with the past and too preoccupied with the idea that nationalism and sense of identity belongs to the soil, to the land, and isn't somehow within ourselves and among each other.

Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.

I think I am my sole competition and see only myself in my league.

I do have very solid reggae roots based on the fact that I'm Jamaican, and so that is a part of myself; even if I never do all reggae, it has to come out in some way because that's who I am.

My solo show, 'A Lot More Me,' is part drag show, part burlesque show, part circus show, and part fashion show.

All I did was basically play myself in the role of Napoleon Solo.

My solo albums have given me confidence in myself and a broader understanding of what I had to offer.

Some people have an identity. I have an alibi. I have a shadow self.

I have heard some people say I have a low profile. Why should somebody be high profile, anyway? I am just doing my job.