Quotes About Identity

I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage.

It is often said that Anne symbolizes the six million victims of the Holocaust. I consider this statement wrong. Anne's life and death were her own individual fate, an individual fate that happened six million times over.

No woman wants to see herself too clearly.

Throughout our lives, we see in the mirror the same innocent trusting face we have seen there since childhood.

Life marks us all down, so it's just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves.

Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part, and does not believe in the play.

Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable.

Basta con hacerse buenas cuñas y de nombre. El médico del Señor Presidente por aquí... El médico del Señor Presidente por allá... Y eso sí, ya ves; eso sí ya es ser algo...

901Le dolía su país como si le hubiera podrido la sangre. Le dolía afuera y en la médula, en la raíz del pelo, bajo las uñas, entre los dientes.

Le dolía su país como si le hubiera podrido la sangre. Le dolía afuera y en la médula, en la raíz del pelo, bajo las uñas, entre los dientes.

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.

Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine.

My memory is so bad that many times I forget my own name!

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

A good name is better than riches.

Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.

Tell me thy company, and I will tell thee what thou art.

Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.

Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.

Leer, leer, leer; ¿seré lectura mañana también yo? ¿Seré mi creador, mi criatura, seré lo que pasó?

Uno mismo es quien menos sabe de su existencia... No se existe sino para los demás...

Pero ahora se le ocurre comprar perro, señorito? - No lo he comprado, Domingo; este perro no es esclavo, sino que es libre; lo he encontrado. - Vamos, si, es expósito. - Todos somos expósitos, Domingo

I cannot imagine how anyone can go through life without carrying the memories of his childhood on the surface of his soul.