Quotes About Self

I'm not creating an enigma or leaving mystery, I'm just respecting myself enough as an artist to give myself room to grow and not to be devoured all in one go.

Other people's beliefs may be myths, but not mine.

Maybe it's that I'm naive, but I don't think of myself as an age.

Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.

My name is Kendall. Kendall Jenner. I am not a Kardashian.

I don't think a name defines the core of who you are.

My full name is E.G. Marshall. I am known by no other.

It's one of the hardest things in life - choosing your own name.

I think my parents were high when they named me.

My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning.

In both 'Tigerman' and my first book, 'The Gone-Away World,' there are characters who never really get names. They're too fundamentally who they are to be bound by a name, so I couldn't give them one.

I was fortunate to work with the biggest names of the industry; I would like to continue this journey of discovering myself as an actor and keep experimenting.

When you're an actor, you can be hindered by your own narcissism.

You know, I'm a really individualistic person. I'm extremely narcissistic and egocentric, too. So I have one life, and I have to live it the way I want.

It's sad to me that the main stage of history is a story of how we became this visually obsessed, extremely narcissistic, extremely concerned about image, culture. At least in the West.

We are all at the center of our own narrative, but it's a narrative that changes every time we retell it.

The gender is irrelevant; the identity is the one you should try and create for yourself by yourself, and the narrative of your own life becomes your own book.

Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.

I think it's really easy to be the altruistic hero of your own narrative and story.

The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the story told. It is the identity of the story that makes the identity of the character.

When you take charge of your own narrative, it gives you a handle on it.

When I started making music, I figured the name Rico Nasty would give a background of who I am.

Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.

I might live in Manhattan or Edinburgh or Cardiff. I think of myself as without nationality.