Quotes About Identity

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

If you find something that you feel you belong to, become a groupie and a fan, and then a critic.

We were all born to "be somebody," look deep inside your heart to find out who and what you are supposed to be.

Trials teach us what we are.

Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.

Don't like me for who I am? Then you don't like me for who I am. And all you're gonna get is who I am.

Anything or anyone that asks you to be other than yourself is not holy, but is trying only to fill its own need.

I have to fight to keep my image really me... I rejected some gorgeous publicity shots because they just didn't look like me.

We have an epidemic of insecure people in our society today.

Every man has a vocation to be someone: but he must understand clearly that in order to fulfill this vocation he can only be one person: himself.

I don't want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.

Circumstances will never determine your amount of happiness. Circumstances only highlight who you already are.

You are not feeling empty because you don't have much money. You are feeling empty because you have not yet encountered your real self, you have not come to your authentic individuality.

I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.

For individuals, character is destiny. For organizations, culture is destiny.

Who you were is not who you are. Who you are, is what you will be.

Well, I don't want to be king, I want to be real.

Nobody knows you better than you do.

It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than to be known by sixty million for something you're not.

You know the way people begin to look like their dogs? Well, we're beginning to look like each other.

Brother and Sister So & So are not your standard; Jesus is.

Everyone is born unique. No comparison is possible. You are you, and I am I.

It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.

Avatars are a way to express our true selves, our most heroic, idealized version of who we might become.