Who Quotations | Page 2

I'm so proud of who I am and where I come from and who my father is.

People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.

Accept who you are and try and make the best of that.

I could be a jerk and get a lot more publicity, but that's not who I am.

The older I get, the more I embrace who I am.

To change what you get you must change who you are.

At the end of the day, I'm a human being and I just think that's what it is. Challenging stereotypes by just being who I am.

Not only don't I know who I am, but I'm very suspicious of people who do know who they are. I am sometimes ten or twelve people a day, and sometimes four or five people an hour!

Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

When the Christian faith becomes defined by who we are and what we do and not by who Christ is and what he did for us, we miss the gospel - and we, ironically, become more disobedient.

For me, it's very offensive when I notice that it's all about my appearance, how I look, that a man doesn't care who I am.

I know who I am as a person, as a father, and as a husband.

Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.

Don't get me wrong. I want people to know who I am.

It has been an interesting road, but I wouldn't trade any of it for the world, because I feel like all of those instances in my life I felt molded me and strengthened me and made me who I am.

How do I tell people who I am? Not being a writer, the only way is to sing songs that reflect my opinions.

What happened on September 11 compels us to focus on who we are as Americans, what we stand for, what really matters in our lives - family, friends, faith and freedom.

Who I am on stage is very, very different to who I am in real life.

I like looking feminine and I enjoy being a role model. I enjoy being a woman. It all comes down to having the confidence to be who you are.

The world can't tell you who you are. You've just got to figure out who you are and be there, for better or worse.

Don't let anyone try to tell you who you are. Define yourself.

No matter where you put me, I don't care if it is North Carolina, Florida, California, New York City; I'm going to be who I am.

I'm just going to live my life and be who I am.

No one knows who I am and no-one cares. I could jump in front of a camera man and he'd just tell me to get out of the way.

I'm having a great time. I get to travel and see the world. And yeah, I'll have a family, because I don't want to miss out on that amazing experience, but it's not defining who I am.

In every election homophobia has been part of the landscape and in every campaign I've been able to become connected enough to my constituents that they know who I am and that I can be elected on my merits.

This is who I am. I'm not perfect. I don't want to try to be perfect.

I wear weird things sometimes. I like to drink coffee. Neither of those things have anything to do with who I am.

I feel like I'll always be a brunette, that's just who I am, but I love that I can switch it up and be whatever I want to be.

I love playing characters who are opposite of who I am.

I've always been intrigued by the power of secrets. When is it justifiable to keep them from the ones we love? And does keeping them irrevocably change who we are?

Everyone has challenges and lessons to learn - we wouldn't be who we are without them.

I'm an advocate of 'it's not what you are, it's who you are.'

Being at school, being who I am, being an athlete, it was hard to find people like me. There's not many athletes that can be at my level. That was kind of hard finding people who love something so much they want to keep on doing it.

I have simply said that there's just a side of me that could not judge anybody singing. It's not who I am. I don't want to be that person.

I love to play baseball. I'm a baseball player. I've always been a baseball player. I'm still a baseball player. That's who I am.

I don't want to say work is who I am, but some people feel more centered and more whole when they're producing and creating.

I think my parents were really smart parents. I think they were, actually, pretty progressive for the time. The one thing that they really wanted me to know is what makes me tick, what I am about, how I approach life. And I think what my parents really wanted for me was for me to be who I am.

I think I've been incredibly raw my whole career. A lot of people spend a lot of time trying to look cool and spend time being guarded and putting up walls. I just never had the time. It seems more honest to say, 'Hey, this is who I am.

I have no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong.

I am comfortable with my body and embrace who I am. I love to work it.

I have nothing but respect for the Lakers. So many of their legends shaped who I am as a person and player.

Every day starts, my eyes open and I reload the program of misery. I open my eyes, remember who I am, what I'm like, and I just go, 'Ugh'.

Time made me change. I gradually woke up to the realization that this is who I am, an author, a public figure, and I couldn't just hide in my study, tapping away at the keyboard and pretend that I didn't have a role to play beyond stringing words together.

The truth sets you free. It's a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It's amazing.

I do believe that Muslims and Christians and Jews pray to the same God. And yet they understand who God is in significantly different ways.

I was raised right. I dig who I am.

As time goes by people will see who I am for who I am.

I find singing some of Foreigner's older songs are a little reckless and not exactly who I am now.

When I made a breakthrough as an actor, people started to say, 'Who's that bloke with the funny name?' They advised me to change it, saying it would never be put up in lights outside theaters because they couldn't afford the electricity. But I would never contemplate changing it. It's who I am.

As an actor, you know, I love not being pigeonholed, which is great. No one really knows who I am. So that's a positive.

At the end of the day, I stand by who I am. I'm a good person.

I'm not a cheerleader. I'm not trying to pretend to be sweet and then come out and be bad. This is who I am.

I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.

The feeling of being at sea has put me in touch with who I am to a greater degree than if I had been on land all these years. So, in a roundabout way, I imagine it does inform my acting.

What you collect says so much about who you are,

You are in integrity when the life you are living on the outside matches who you are on the inside.

People have a preconceived notion about who I am and it's interesting. It's like picking who you want to win for the Oscars and not seeing the movie. Before you make a statement about someone, get all the information and see everything before you make a judgment.

I'm okay in my skin, you know... I'm okay with who I am.

Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.

I know who I am. I don't have to brag. I know what I contributed. I know what I did. You think you can do it better? Hey, go right ahead. The stage is yours.

I'm determined not to lose my name. It's who I am. It has neither aided my progress nor hampered it. It's just who I am. My character. . . My make-up. My culture and heritage is a very rich one. So what if it's difficult for people to pronounce? We all learned how to say Schwarzenegger.

I need some isolation, it's necessary to me, that's just who I am. I need to be left alone.

We're all imperfect. And wouldn't it be great if the message sent out by the mainstream media is that we're fine being exactly who we are? Wouldn't that be great for everyone?

Most of you are so young you dont know who I am, and thats good.

To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.

I'm not gonna apologize for who I am and what I've gone through.

The other thing is surrounding yourself with people that care for you. These are simple things, but they're powerful, and they've completely transformed who I am and how I perceive myself.

Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.

When I was a kid, I remember trying to emulate Stevie Wonder's sound, and Donny Hathaway's sound. It's just part of who I am - I'm just a soulful kind of dude.

My whole life I've hated to lose, no doubt about it. I've been guilty of that since I was 6 years old, at camp. I have always played to win. That's who I am. But I never hurt anybody. The problem is when you're perceived as being too aggressive where you hurt somebody or do something improper.

I am who I am, and I'm focused on that, and being a great CEO of Apple.

You can talk about what you see from the outside; it's hard to tell me who I am when you're just looking at me with a football uniform on. That's a totally different person. That's my job, that's it.

I think part of maturity is knowing who you are.

Everyone has opportunities and different doors that are opened to them in different ways. In the end, if you're talented you'll get work, if you're not, you won't, so it doesn't really matter who you know.

You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.

I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are.

Acting is my number one, but dancing will always be a part of who I am and in my heart. I love doing stunts when they are a part of my acting.

No, I am who I am. Im not going to change for anybody.

I want to get away from the social vampires in Tucson. The people who have no lives of their own and meet me and know who I am and feel entitled to say negative things. I have good friends here, especially in the bands. But a lot of it is just like high school.

People do make assumptions about models. That's their issue, not mine. It doesn't bother me because I'm comfortable enough in my own skin - I know who I am.

As long as I continue to put forth who I am and what I believe, than I think it all balances out.

For a long time, sure, I was letting the pressure of being Rodney King get to me. It ain't easy. Even now, I walk into a place wondering, 'What people are thinking? Do they know who I am? What do they think about what happened? Do they blame me for the all those people who died?'

I still sing because I love the sound of applause, because it's who I am, and because I still can.

I always like whatever I did most recently. It's the closest to who I am at the moment.

Music is just kind of an expression of who I am. It's what I do.

Things present themselves to you, and it's how you choose to deal with them that reveals who you are. We all say a lot of things, don't we, about who we are and how we think. But in the end it's your actions, how you respond to circumstance that reveals your character.

After 'Breaking Bad,' people are very frightened of who I am. They back away from me on the street.

You think you can go into all those auditions not knowing who you are? The work came after I found my sense of self - when I wasn't so manic and desperate.

I think it's sexy when someone makes a statement that says, 'This is who I am. This is what I think is sexy.'

I know that I come from mid-20th century America, urban, specifically downtown New York, specifically an Italian-American area, Roman Catholic - that's who I am. And a part of what I know is there's a decency to people who tried to make a living in the kind of world that was around us and also the Skid Row area of the Bowery; it impressed me.

I can't feel bad about being who I am, just like the girl next to me can't feel bad about being who she is. Because a rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose.

We all have two things in common, no matter who we are: We were born and we are going to die.

Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But we are who we are.

I don't have to try to be perfect because I know that my fans like me for who I am. They like me because I am weird and kind of funky, but still really calm.

I started my YouTube channel when I was 13. At the time, I was being bullied by a few people who I used to be very close to. I felt very alone and unmotivated. After discovering the beauty community, I decided it would be a great way to express myself and use it as an outlet to be who I am.

Now I'm fortunate to have a good band in CA, and play many solo gigs as well. My point is that I stopped playing in bands and played solo for four years, to get back into the groove and pulse of writing and singing and who I am on stage.

I don't really know who I am as an actor: the best thing would be to experiment with it for the next 30 years and never really find out.

Style is innate to who I am. My father gave me a picture the other day. I must have been about seven, and I had on wing-tip shoes and some cool pants. I thought, 'Wow!

As my career has progressed, I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest jazz cats on the planet. But that doesn't change my desire to entertain folks. That's really who I am.