Who Quotations | Page 3

Part of the reason for moving to New York was the sense that it just didn't matter how much work I did in England, I continued to be seen simply as a Redgrave. I did feel I could be who I am in New York and we all like to feel appreciated.

I think people think I'm harder and more arrogant and cocky than I am - because I know how to put on a front, but it's nothing like who I am inside.

I want people to see me for who I am and not for how someone else is trying to promote me.

I've realised that I am who I am and that is it. Like it or lump it. I'm not around to please anyone any more, and it's a huge relief.

I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.

Pop music allows you to be who you are without having to wear a social uniform or to conform, which some people find impossible to do.

My public image is absolutely not a fair reflection of who I am.

I have a little baby. She knows who I am. My friends know. My family knows.

The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it... It's a great outlet. I'm not really sure who I am - it seems I change every day.

Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself, in fact, confused.

Women do well in their thirties. They put their bags down and say, 'This is who I am - like it or lump it.' There is a more relaxed quality, which I like.

My lyrics come from my experiences growing up in life, trying to find out and express who I am. That's basically it. I'm not trying to be a prophet or anything like that. I'm just reflecting on life.

Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to, will be performing well into the next many decades because they are great artists.

I am not a politics wonk. I like the idea of my writing reflecting more about who I am or other people.

Don't try too hard to be young. Be who you are

I've pretty much been portrayed as every style thing you can be. After Wimbledon you are Andy Everyman, who everybody is rooting for. I think the meat and potatoes of who I am hasn't been covered yet.

I cherish all of the times I've fallen on my face and made mistakes, because those experiences have made me who I am.

Your life starts to take shape at 30. You don't have to make excuses for who you are anymore.

I'm convinced I got signed because of who I am. And it makes me sad.

I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.

Fame sweeps you away. I had to go home every six months to remember who I am.

A big part of who I am is just the way I was raised. Nobody is better than anyone else, and if you really work hard, you might get lucky and get what you want.

There are a couple of teachers I have had without whose influence I would not be as happy with who I am.

Im not a bad guy. People who know me know who I am.

I want people to come to my music without prejudice. I want them to get the music first. And who I am isn't that important. If they like the songs to me that's a good thing.

Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build.

If you are you, 24 hours a day, then you do not have to remember who you are supposed to be in different situations - something that I imagine could be troublesome.

I know not everyone will like me, but this is who I am so if you don't like it, tough!

For 20 years I've had the privilege of representing Canada around the globe... first on the bike and then on my blades. The experiences have shaped me into who I am today.

We really have to be willing to find out who we are instead of rebelling for the equal rights that we've been denied, that we do deserve.

I find it irresponsible to go, 'She's an actress, what does she know?' That means if you're a dentist, what do you know? If you're a lawyer, what do you know? It's our profession, it's what we do. It's not who we are.

The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.

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.

Certainly, when I walk into an audition, a lot of people already know who I am.

Anyone who wants to know who I am can just read my lyrics - I've always written about who I am.

I feel a tremendous sense of accomplishment. Everything is in tune: the voice, the type of music, who I am and who people think I am.

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.

I'm naturally quite lazy, and I actually think I'm lax about my career. None of my work defines who I am.

I think that we're all continually searching for who we are, and that's ever-evolving and changing.

Sexuality is one of the biggest parts of who we are.

But I also enjoy life... the more scrutiny I am under, the more confident I become. I am who I am. I can't do anything about it, and I love who I am.

When I sing, I have a sense of peace, I feel like my brain turns off, and I become the core person of who I am - the essence of me. I feel connected to whatever is out there. It's almost like I leave my body and get to watch.

I used to just think about what my fans wanted all the time. But it just started feeling weird to me. I want to just show everyone who I am and stick to my vision. I have to trust myself.

It's less about what you do and more about who you are doing it with.

You've got to understand that in Bollywood, every actor is an instrument, and yet a human being. They come to the set with a set agenda, believing, 'This is who I am, this is what I want, and no, I am not going to become that character you want me to.'

Maybe because I didn't have a huge film career right off the bat, I've been able to create something different, which is so important to me. That's myself, my idea of who I am.

I'm officially near-famous. If you've got four year old kids and you've got cable, then you've got no choice but to know who I am. But if you're one of my peers - a 26-year old guy who lives in Manhattan - you have no idea who I am. I'm only famous if you're four.

You have to be honest about who you are.

Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.

People don't really understand who I am. They always think that I'm very dark or depressed, but it couldn't be further from the truth!

I feel very confident with the way I look. But I felt just as confident the way I looked before. I've always been confident with who I am.

Your mind is a magnet. You don't attract what you need or what you want; you attract who you are. And I love who I am!

If you see me as just the princess then you misunderstand who I am and what I have been through.

I don't think I would have been able to stick with it and been proud of who I am and be feminine out on the court. I think I would have folded to the peer pressure if I didn't have my mom to encourage me to be me and be proud of how tall I am.

My thing is related to who I am as a person. The clothes are an extension of me. The music is an extension of me. All my businesses are part of the culture, so I have to stay true to whatever I'm feeling at the time, whatever direction I'm heading in. And hopefully, everyone follows.

The theater is who I am - it's where I feel the most inspired, the most at home, the most useful.

I don't know if I'll ever get used to the idea that strangers know who I am. I don't know if I want to.

You have got to decide, look, this is who I am; this is my best way to present myself, and I'm going to ride that horse to the finish line. Not everybody will like it, but that's OK.

I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people.

There's nobody who cares more about you than you, and there's nobody better equipped to take care of you than you.

I just don't want to die alone, that's all. That's not too much to ask for, is it It would be nice to have someone care about me, for who I am, not about my wallet.

I say to people who care for people who are dying, if you really love that person and want to help them, be with them when their end comes close. Sit with them - you don't even have to talk. You don't have to do anything but really be there with them.

I don't think I'm like any of the characters I've played - they're all really far from who I am.

I think it's always best to be who you are.

Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path... this is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am.

If the Loki in 'Thor' was about a spiritual confusion - 'Who am I? How do I belong in this world?' - the Loki in 'Avengers' is, 'I know exactly who I am, and I'm going to make this world belong to me.'

I write about families. That is who we are.

I don't care who you are, life has challenges.

Some men are afraid of women who challenge them and demand respect and answers. That's who I am and will always be.

I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am.

Despite everything, no one can dictate who you are to other people.

I am who I am. That's why my friends and peers respect and appreciate me. I don't change or cater my actions to fit my surroundings. I'm myself 24/7. People appreciate that.

We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.

How you go about moving within the world you live in says so much about who you are.

No one can make me work harder than I do, so I'm generally not interested in who I am competing with.

I'd rather have friends who care than friends who agree with me.

You can't respect yourself if you're afraid to be who you are.

I am who I am. I'm going to speak my mind.

I'm still a little girl in Hawaii, I have the same friends I had when I was a kid who love me for who I am - not what I do. I never got caught up in the club scene or took wrong roads.

Character roles only indicate that they're very different from who you are as a person, and for me, it's fun hiding behind characters that are so unlike who I am.

Singing is just another outlet to express what I feel and to show everyone who I really am. I really don't talk about my personal life that much in interviews because that's my life, but with music, the way I write explains who I am.

When I have sex with someone I forget who I am. For a minute I even forget I'm human. It's the same thing when I'm behind a camera. I forget I exist.

I'm happy to be alive, I'm happy to be who I am.

Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay.

I owe it to my fans to be who I am. There's nothing fake about me.

I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big.

As far as writing, it's grown because I've really grown comfortable with who I am.

I decided, if I'm going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I'm going to do is to try and find out who I am. I created everything about me.

I've always been very vocal about my religion. It's a big part of who I am.

I love to reinvent myself, and that's because I am a very free person. I do what I feel, and I love who I am.

I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.

I just do my thing and try each show to be more honest about why I am and who I am. It's quite tricky and actually nerve-racking to do that. It's kind of a happy train wreck.

Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.

I'm really lucky with the people around me. They know me, so they don't confuse the issues, really. They know what a book is and they know who I am and they know the difference between the two.

I'm a big believer in everybody being themselves. If not doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, that's great. But if doing a swimsuit calendar is yourself, then you should be able to do it. What I do outside the car adds to who I am and expresses a different side of me.

Everything that I've done has made me who I am today. You know, it's cliche, but it's true.

I love who I am, and I encourage other people to love and embrace who they are. But it definitely wasn't easy - it took me a while.

My life is not separate from my music, you know? It's not like a day job that I leave and go home. It's who I am as a person and how I am trying to grow, come closer to God, be a better person.

Don't look at someone else and want to be them. Search within yourself and find out who you are and be someone positive.