Self-knowledge quotes

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

“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

“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

“I had the worst thought: I've got to spend the rest of my life with myself.”
Hailee Steinfeld - Nadine

“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

“My problem was I let myself become known before I knew myself.”
Elliott Gould

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

“I remember once imagining what my life would be like, what I'd be like. I pictured having all these qualities, strong positive qualities that people could pick up on from across the room. But as time passed, few ever became any qualities that I actually had. And all the possibilities I faced and the sorts of people I could be, all of them got...” (continue)(continue reading)
Nicolas Cage - David Spritz

“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

“If a man does not embrace his past, he has no future.”
Oded Fehr - Ardeth Bay

“It's not who I am underneath... but what I do... that defines me.”
Christian Bale - Bruce Wayne

“I think that human beings, even the ones who are sometimes hurting you, are often very, very confused at their center.”
Jimmi Simpson