Quotes About Identity

I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible.

There isn't anyone anywhere that isn't Seymour's Fat Lady. Don't you know that? Don't you know that goddam secret yet? And don't you know—listen to me, now—don't you know who that Fat Lady really is?… Ah, buddy. Ah, buddy. It's Christ Himself. Christ Himself, buddy.

I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy.

The Party member may physically reside in the United States, but he "lives" in a communist "world.

People no longer need enemies--in this millennium their great dream is to become victims. Only their psychopathies can set them free.

A good name is seldom regained. When character is gone, all is gone, and one of the richest jewels of life is lost.

I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.

we need to think about sex and gender in a more ecological kind of framework, understanding that changes in one environment inevitably impact changes in other environments. Gender here might be thought of more as a climate or ecosystem and less as an identity or discrete bodily location.

You're a wizard, Harry.

Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Sometimes you remind me a lot of James. He called it my 'furry little problem' in company. Many people were under the impression that I owned a badly behaved rabbit.

Just because it's taken you three years to notice, Ron, doesn't mean no one else has spotted I'm a girl!

If you made a better rat than a human, it's not much to boast about, Peter.

You come to realize that thoughts come and go of their own accord; that you are not your thoughts.

The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are this is where we came from and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering.

There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.

After spending my life thinking I was an architect, I was a sailor adrift at sea.

Until we begin to put pen to paper, we historically do not exist.

In some respects, a society in which the members reach a universal level in which they are anonymous drones by choice is even more frightening than one in which they are forced to be so against their will. When human beings relinquish their individuality and identity of their own volition, they are also relinquishing their claim to being human.

I am in fact a Hobbit, in all but size.

Aunque me temo que nos sentimos atraídos por aquello que nos abandona, y por lo que parece más probable que vaya a abandonarnos, finalmente creo que nos define lo que nos acoge.