Who Quotations | Page 5

I can't control what people think. They know who I am.

Everybody should be affected by their own realities in their own lives, their own struggles in their own lives. It makes us who we are, and we all know that.

I identify with the regular person, because that is who I am.

I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility. It's part of who I am. It does not define me.

I have been consistent by staying true to who I am and will continue to sing the type of songs that those who have continued to support my career expect from me.

I've had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that's OK with me. I don't feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular?

If I look at the message I'm portraying, I think it definitely is be who you are, but be your best you.

I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.

I know right now she has no idea who I am, but I'd like to collaborate with Enya one day. Of course I'd love to work with Jay-Z, maybe even Phil Collins. I love his voice.

Hermione is so close to who I am as a person that I've never really had to research a role. I'm literally rediscovering what it means to be an actress.

I'm under no illusion that there are things about me that I'd like to change. I just accept who I am, and I'm proud of it.

I've tried and failed a lot. But I've also tried to be really clear about my brand. It is who I am. I'm a mum, I'm a wife, I'm 44 and from the Midwest.

My goal as an artist is to always be true to who I am and give my fans music they will enjoy for a lifetime

My message of common-sense solutions is resonating with people. People around the country are starting to know who I am and starting to identify me with solutions, not rhetoric.

You know when I was 20 and 30, they were insecurities. Now they're just a new normal. I'm 60 years old, so my expectations of who I am and how I look and how I show up in the world had to shift. Not because I couldn't help it, or not because I did anything wrong, but because I had to get into the natural flow of my being as a woman.

I love to compete. That's the essence of who I am.

For the last 12 years, I've felt really privileged to be living such a normal life. It's so a part of who I am.

I am who I am, and I think I have a good nature, by and large. But if someone takes advantage of that good nature, well then, you know, I'm not that nice a guy.

I love who I am. I love what I've become.

It's about what happens on stage, whether we can deliver it in a hungry way that is who we are in our hearts.

For me, being Catholic was who I was and who I am, just like I'm Irish and Slovak. It's just so ingrained in us.

I was on cruise control from '85 to '95, and it was my fault. There were a lot of self-inflicted wounds, when I was not doing any original material. I wasn't directing. I wasn't writing. That's not who I am.

People don't need to necessarily see me in the jersey to understand who I am and what message I'm trying to get across with the things that I'm marketing.

I can only see my limitations. That's just who I am.

I am only young once, who cares if I'm a goofball!

I obviously don't feel under pressure to look young, because I have had no Botox or surgery. I don't judge people who choose to have it, but I don't want to erase who I am.

I am obsessive always, even as a child. On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other is communism, and I am this little girl pulled between the two. It makes me who I am. It turns me into the kind of person that Freud would have a field day with, for sure.

I don't expect anybody to know who I am.

Nobody really knows who I am, where I came from, what's in my heart, why I believe in the things I believe, what I see behind the scenes and they don't see.

I was on the board of Andre Agassi's foundation, and seeing the way it operated blew my mind. In 2002, I told my wife, I want to start a foundation to give back, I want it to be for kids in hard circumstances, and I want it to be culinary-driven, because that's who I am.

People can't really place me. They're not really sure who I am. Sometimes they think I'm Helen Hunt. Sometimes they think I'm Laura Dern.

A great business has to have a conscience. You have to know who you are and who you are not.

I didn't get on TV until I was 30, which is really fortunate because you are who you are at that point.

I've seen firsthand that being president doesn't change who you are. It reveals who you are.

I'm an artist, and the need to get inside myself and be creative and be other people is a part of who I am. I don't imagine I'll abandon that completely.

I'm every woman. It takes a village to make me who I am.

I can't turn off the way I think, and that's essentially who I am, who anybody is.

I feel uncomfortable because I'm insecure about who I am.

Politics, nature, and what is happening all over the world is important to who we are and where we live.

I challenge the Republican nominees and all Republicans to not just be the anti-illegal immigration party. That's not who we are and that's not who we should be we should be the pro-legal immigration party.

I don't know if I get recognized necessarily, though I do get looked at a lot - but I don't know if it's because of who I am, or if people just think I look weird.

I know who I am, I know what I can and can't do. I know what I will and won't do. I know what I'm capable of and I don't agree to do things that I don't think I can pull off.

I love my friends and my past, and it's made me who I am.

To me, I always felt like I was carrying a torch for women of any size to be themselves - it doesn't matter whether you're a size 2 or a 22, just be who you are.

I grew up around the theatre. My mother is an actress. I would fall asleep on tons of theatre chairs. It's in my blood; it's in my spirit and my fabric of who I am.

Running is a part of my medicine. It's what helps relieve my stress, and it's what helps me get away from the concerns of business and anything else that's going on in my life that I need to escape from at times - to find who I am. Running really helps me with that.

Social revolutions and group revolutions are good, and we need that, but we also need personal revolution - revolution within ourselves that change who we are as people.

When I tried to play characters that strayed from who I am it ended in disaster. People didn't expect me in comedies or musicals.

And ultimately the people who produce my records, they know that they're here to serve the purpose of me expressing who I am at this period of time and augmenting that or pulling it forward and I love that process.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

I'm very secure about my talents and about who I am.

If we become one of those societies that attack success, why not come as certain there will be a lot less success? And that's not who we are.

I'm reminded of who I am, who I was, and who I'm supposed to be.

I don't identify with anyone historically, but there are several people in the future who I am a dead ringer for.

For a marriage relationship to flourish, there must be intimacy. It takes an enormous amount of courage to say to your spouse, 'This is me. I'm not proud of it - in fact, I'm a little embarrassed by it - but this is who I am.

Don't let other people tell you who you are.

Be tenacious. One thing that has allowed me to have some level of success is that I am fine with cold-calling people. It doesn't scare me to call someone who has no idea who I am and say I'd love to take you to lunch.

I never regret anything I do. It's part of who I am now, and I like who I am now.

Who I am inside determines how I feel about my body instead of the other way around

Once I know who I'm not, then I'll know who I am.

Debt has become a part of who we are.

I want to try to not be the child that had to go through too much too young. I want to be who I am now and not who I was then.

I want to try to be who I am today, not who I was yesterday.

I want to reclaim who I am.

The soul knows everything. Be who you are and your life will transform forever.

Everything that happens to us is a reflection of who we are.

There is a light within each of us that can never be diminished or extinguished. It can only be obscured by forgetting who we are

Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.

I have the belief that we are all created to be unique. We are supposed to be different and do those things that made us who we are.

I have no regrets in my life even the crazy things I've been in. It all made me the I am today and I wouldn't change anything. I'm happy with who I am!

And our dreams are who we are.

What we do flows from who we are.

When I walked down the streets, I asked myself, are these my people?, is this my hometown, am I who I am?

The ultimate question of who we are is set before us at all times and answered with every action.

We must be our own authentically unique truth, and question who we are, what created us, and what processes within us are alien and externally created.

Intimacy starts with a relationship with yourself, an understanding of who you are.

For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and to who we will become.

To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.

The blessing is that everyone knows who I am because of the commercials.

No matter what you set out to do and how you set out to do it, you ultimately have to be who you are, and who you are as that character. So, I paid as much homage as I could to what Michael Clarke did, and had to rely on my own gifts to guide me through it.

What you wear is such an expression of who you are. That's like someone picking out who I'm going to date!

If the grape is made of wine, then perhaps we are the words that tell who we are

I am who I am and I have the need to be.

The only thing you can lose is ... your connection to who-you-are.

When faced with conflicting thoughts and emotions, we must decide what to trust, what we fear, or what we know. What's important is that this decision be made by the knowledgeable versus the anxious part of who we are.

Your looks do not define who you are.

If you love something, let it go. If you don't love something, definitely let it go. Basically, just drop everything, who cares.

When I'm wasted, I can almost forget who I am," he said, his smile fading slightly. "I know I'm still there, but only barely. It's a good place to be." He tipped back the thermos, eyes on the dark sea straight ahead

You want me to come clean, I will. I'll tell you everything. Who I am and what I've done. Every last detail. I'll dig it all up, but you have to ask. You have to want it. You can see who I was, or you can see who I am now. I'm not good," he said, piercing me with eyes that absorbed all light but reflected none, "but I was worse.

Once you're away from music, I realize that's as intrinsic to who I am as anything else. That's the part that takes me out of my brain.

I've always been big. I'm never going to be an underwear model. But I am who I am, and that has its advantages and disadvantages.

Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?

All of these lines across my face, tell you the story of who I am. So many stories of where I've been and how I got to where I am.

When I first moved to LA, no one could understand a thing I said, you would think I was speaking another language. Every time I would order something at Starbucks, they would go, 'Huh? What did you say?' My accent was an issue and my low voice was as well. They thought I should be more girlie. But that's who I am.

There are multiple sides to all of us. Who we are - and who we might be if we follow our dreams

I'm still learning who I am. One minute I have black hair, the next it's red. One day I'm wearing Converse sneakers, and the next I'm in the hippie look.

I think the reason that a lot of people have to have a lot of people around is just about being smart and knowing what you want to talk about. I want people to know who I am. Respect is a huge thing - especially in my family. If you don't respect people, people aren't going to respect you back. It's just about yourself, you respecting others, and hopefully everyone else will follow that and respect you, as well.

I think at some point during everyone's life, you finally figure yourself out. I haven't even done that yet. I'm still learning who I am.

It has taken me most of my adult life to come to terms with who I am. To do that, I had to break free of attitudes that brought me down.

When I'm feeling down on myself or not feeling good about who I am, or maybe something happened and I'm feeling depressed, I eat to fill that void. Afterwards I'll beat myself up about it. I regret doing it, but I'll turn around and do it again.