Quotes About Identity

I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind.

Choice springs from the totality of the person. Thus, to study, to analyze what a person is, does not eliminate the idea of freedom.

Each in the cell of himself is almost convinced of his freedom.

Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition.

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.

A man's life consist not of the things he possess, nor Facebook likes and approval.But some of it damn sure consist of his favorite hobbies and love of girls with guns

Quid nomen tibi est? She was not about to offer her name up to a stranger. It was almost the only thing she possessed that nobody had stolen.

Independence and free thought is what makes a person grow. By giving people the freedom and space to figure out who they are and be that, you give them the power to grow.

I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.

'Chasing Amy' was an amazing role, but then after that, I went and did 'Big Daddy' and you're the girlfriend or you're the best friend. I wasn't getting the Nicole Kidman roles.

One of the things I have an allergic reaction to playing, especially as a black actor, is the mandatory kind of best friend/cop/detective type. You will never see me in that movie.

Tell me what company thou keepest and I'll tell thee what thou art.

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

I failed eating, failed drinking, failed not cutting myself into shreds. Failed friendship. Failed sisterhood and daughterhood. Failed mirrors and scales and phone calls. Good thing I'm stable.

The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.

I was never the 'babe,' so I knew I'd never get those big roles. I'd always be the best friend or the quirky sidekick.

To others we are not ourselves but a performer in their lives cast for a part we do not even know that we are playing.

She lives in Mojave in a Winnebago. His name is Bobby, he looks like a potato.

I am I because my little dog knows me.

I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.

I can only be myself, I'm sorry that's hell for you.

Pray steal me not, I'm Mrs. Dingley's, Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies.

Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.

Both therapy and friendship possessed the common denominator of discovering a self.