Self-knowledge quotes

“You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.”
Ed Harris

“No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved.”
Kate Beckinsale

“It is our moments of struggle, that define us.”
Morgan Freeman - President Trumbull

“Who are we? Are we simply what others want us to be? Are destined to a fate beyond our control? Or can we evolve? Become... something more?”
Sophie Turner - Jean Grey

“I don't know how I'm going to live with myself if I don't stay true to what I believe.”
Andrew Garfield - Desmond Doss

“- Tree Gelbman: You know, it's funny, you relive the same day over and over again, you kind of start to see who you really are. If my mom saw me now, and who I've become, I don't think she'd be very proud.
- Carter Davis: Don't say that.
- Tree Gelbman: It's true. I'm not a good person, Carter. Maybe it's karma, maybe I deserve it.”
Jessica Rothe - Tree Gelbman
Israel Broussard - Carter Davis

“This is too deep for me.”

Hedy Lamarr

“I'm a Utopian anarchist — which means nothing. You know, the intellectuals take over and the government crumbles. I'm a less than convincing dilettante, much less an intellectual. I go to the store for a loaf of bread and come back with a quart of milk. So I act. To compensate for this indignity they put roses in the dressing room on the first...” (continue)(continue reading)
Robert Mitchum

“I know who I am. I'm the dude playin' the dude, disguised as another dude!”
Robert Downey Jr. - Kirk Lazarus

“You can't respect yourself if you're afraid to be who you are.”
Amber Heard

“The only way you can know where the line is, is if you cross it.”
Dave Chappelle

“- Kevin: Who is you, Chiron?
- Black: I'm me man. I ain't trying to be nothing else.”
André Holland - Kevin
Trevante Rhodes - Black

“At some point, you gotta decide for yourself who you gonna be. Can't let nobody make that decision for you.”
Mahershala Ali - Juan

“Fearlessly be yourself.”
Anthony Rapp

“In my old life, I longed for someone to see what was special in me. You did, and for that, you'll always be in my heart. But what I really needed was for me to see it. And now I do.”

Halle Berry - Catwoman

“You can't be something that you don't have within yourself.”
Tracey Walter

“I'm a passionate trade unionist.”
Richard Attenborough

“I'm a pants salesman. I think I know how to act around people.”

David Koechner - Buck

“We are not defined by where we’re from, but by who we love.”

“- Sophie: It's about knowing who I am and... and I wanted to get married knowing who I am!
- Sky: That doesn't come from finding your father. That comes from finding yourself.”
Amanda Seyfried - Sophie
Dominic Cooper - Sky

“You know, ever since we were little, I would get this feeling like... Like I'm floating outside of my body, looking down at myself... And I hate what I see... How I'm acting, the way I sound. And I don't know how to change it. And I'm so scared... That the feeling is never gonna go away.”
Hailee Steinfeld - Nadine

- Cheshire Cat: What do you call yourself?
- Alice: Alice.
- Cheshire Cat: "The" Alice?
- Alice: There's been some debate about that.
- Cheshire Cat: I never get involved in politics.
Stephen Fry - Cheshire Cat
Mia Wasikowska - Alice in Wondeland

“I am not an elephant! I am not an animal! I am a human being! I am a man!”
Sir John Hurt - John Merrick

“Everyone goes through that time in their life when they're trying to figure out who they are, find their own purpose and their own way.”
Danielle Macdonald

“All the confusion of my life... has been a reflection of myself! Myself as I am, not as I'd like to be.”
Marcello Mastroianni - Guido Anselmi