Quotes About Identity

I have done many movies that people hadn't seen. 'The Fountain ' I spent a year on that. 'The Prestige' with Chris Nolan, and 'Australia.' From my perspective it's very satisfying. Some movies people see and other movies they don't. 'Wolverine ' 'X Men ' I know that in some level people know me just for that and it's fine for me.

Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.

Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer.

Je suppose que quelqu'un, quelque part, le connaît - l'a baptisé ainsi, l'a gueulé dans l'escalier à l'heure du petit-déj

I had to wonder how Ginny could hold her head up under the weight of cosmetics smeared all over her face. Underneath it all, she may have been quite pretty. Or she may have been Dirk Bogarde. I will never know.

His name was Rayner. First name unknown. By me, at any rate, and therefore, presumably, by you too.

Keep on being yourself.

And let the lesson be - to be yersel's, Ye needna fash gin it's to be ocht else. To be yersel's - and to mak' that worth bein' Nae harder job to mortals has been gi'en.

Homo sapiens. That's a label we invented for ourselves, of course: Latin for 'wise man'. It may be hoped that we will eventually either evolve into something worthier of that appellation or aspire to an even better one. How about Gens unanima - 'harmonious race' or ' a people of one spirit'?

Love, sought as an escape from the burden of the self, turns rapidly into a captivity.

Don't be like anybody else. Be different. Then you can make a contribution. Otherwise, you just echo something; you're just a reflection.

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.

No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves

All my life, I have made it complicated, but it is so simple. I love when I love. And when I love, I am myself.

Being myself includes taking risks with myself, taking risks on new behavior, trying new ways of 'being myself', so that I can see who it is I want to be.

There is a part of me that wants to write, a part that wants to theorize, a part that wants to sculpt, a part that wants to teach... To force myself into a single role, to decide to be just on thing in life, would kill off large parts of me.

Being myself includes taking risks with myself, taking risks on new behaviour, trying new ways of 'being myself', so that I can see who it is I want to be.

We need not worship the nation to which we belong.

When we do not succeed to be ourselves, we finally realize that is was completely useless to exist...

Kimbilir, belki kahramanl??a, cömertli?e inanan, soyu tükenmek üzere olan bir hanedan?n son temsilcisi, yani, belki de salaklar?n ?ah?y?md?r !

When I was a boy I noticed I didn't have a fortune line on my palm... so I took my father's razor and... zak... I made myself one, just the way I wanted.

Minä olen tuhkimus! Raivoisa tuhkimus!

Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit.

I don't think I'll ever escape the fact that I don't belong anywhere in particular. I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality.