Top 100 Identify With Quotes
#1. If you've ever felt oppressed on any level, there's something from 'The Wire' that you can take and identify with.
Michael K. Williams
#2. I was worried that if I told her the story, she would identify with it too much. That her sympathy, however well-meaning, would make me possessive, angry again. She was always making things personal, seeing only their relationship to her rather than what was complex about them.
Olivia Sudjic
#3. For a book to be a good one a reader must have a connection with the characters and identify with them and have the story hold their attention and want more
Brenda Kay Winters
#4. The kind of roles which you get, people identify with your roles, and it then leads to the kind of brands you get.
Kangana Ranaut
#5. Anyone can identify with those moments in life where circumstances or people inform us that we've strayed from the path of our better nature and intentions. We know what that's like, and we resist it - so as not to feel like we're bad people.
Viggo Mortensen
#6. At the core, I try to write characters who are real people with real insecurities, fears, hopes, and dreams, which is why hopefully readers can identify with them.
Ally Carter
#7. And it isn't enough for us to identify with our selves, it is necessary to do so passionately, to the point of life and death. Because only in this way can we regard ourselves not merely as a variant of a human prototype but as a being with its own irreplaceable essence.
Milan Kundera
#8. Jung was absolutely right about one thing. We are occupied by gods. The mistake is to identify with the god occupying you.
Michael Ondaatje
#10. Unlike films, plays don't take place in the past. The fear,anxiety of the actors is happening now, in front of you. If performing is risky, we identify with the possibility of granduer and disaster" ("The Body" and Seven Stories).
Hanif Kureishi
#11. Assimilation is really a psychological process where you come to identify with a new country as yours. The ease of overseas travel and information access interferes with that.
Mark Krikorian
#12. In my career, I've often played the protagonist or the hero of the movie, and there are so many rules inherent to that role. The audience needs to stay with you, identify with you and like you. When you play the bad guy, those rules go out the window. There's so much freedom there.
Ryan Phillippe
#13. I'm not sure we're any better, but able to describe the attempt to track our wandering in circles in a way that perhaps somebody else can identify with. I don't think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their confusion.
David Lipsky
#14. It makes me laugh when I hear a guy talking about being in touch with his feminine side. But I gravitate towards women; I identify with them. And I do cry very easily, more and more as I get older.
Willem Dafoe
#15. Two kinds of reading can be distinguished. I call them reading like a reader and reading like a writer ... when you read like a reader, you identify with the characters in the story. The story is what you learn about. When you read like a writer, you identify with the author and learn about writing.
Frank Smith
#16. Renunciation, or refusing to identify with that which one gathers (however precious it may be), is the ultimate doorway to knowing.
Sadhguru
#17. You want people to identify with the person on the screen or in the theater, but you don't want them to identify with you as a person.
David Morrissey
#18. Every nervous system creates its own "reality," minute by minute - we live inside a "bubble" of neural abstractions which we identify with reality. You can make this neurological fact into conscious experience, and you will never be bored or depressed again.
Robert Anton Wilson
#19. I identify with my culture, but I am happy to be living on a tolerant, intellectual island where I can deal with Dostoyevsky and Sartre, both great influences for me.
Orhan Pamuk
#20. In my acting, I have to identify with something in the character. The big tough boy on the side of right - that's me. Simple themes. Same me from the nuances. All I do is sell sincerity and I've been selling the hell out of that ever since I started.
John Wayne
#21. I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which they identify with from the interior.
Diane Wakoski
#22. It was interesting to do a completely fictional piece. You know, Saving Private Ryan was not a fictional piece! So the challenge was: How do you incorporate real emotions? How do you incorporate aspects that people are going to be able to identify with?
Vin Diesel
#23. If we identify with a polarity we create the other. A belief in the 'Light' means that you must believe in the 'Dark' or you would not have to call it 'Light'. It would just be, no labels necessary.
David Icke
#24. Talk about high school and what we identify with in the play; things that have happened to us and all of our high school experiences that we could bring to this. And to talk about what everyone knows in each specific scene.
Sarah Steele
#25. When we identify with music that we are perceiving - or perhaps better, with the person whom we imagine owns the emotions or emotional gestures we hear in the music - we share in and adopt these emotions as our own [...]. And so we end up feeling as, in imagination, the music does.
Jenefer Robinson
#26. Perfect heroes are cool, but no one can really empathize or identify with them.
Masashi Kishimoto
#27. By recognizing your own vulnerability you can recognize and identify with the vulnerability in others.
Jill Soloway
#28. Rage is a powerful energy that with diligent practice can be transformed into fierce compassion. However much we disagree with our enemies, our task is to identify with them. They too feel justified in their point of view.
Gautama Buddha
#29. The trick to songwriting is writing in a poetic enough way that other people can identify with it.
Lights
#30. And there's a darker side to Peckham, too, once you get in deep: a side I like a lot more, because I identify with the past and prefer even worm-eaten wood to wipe-clean plastic.
Mike Carey
#31. The colors of light are infinite through refraction, yet they all come from the same source. Thus I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul, nor fail to identify with the most virtuous.
Dalai Lama
#32. You are not merely the physical body that you identify with out of habit. Your essential state is a field of infinite possibilities.
Deepak Chopra
#33. When you go into a starring position and you're carrying a movie, it's important that people like it. So I only do things that I can connect with in some sort of way, or that I can identify with.
Mark Wahlberg
#34. We can identify with Frodo and Sam, setting off not knowing quite where they are going and what they are to do.
Timothy Radcliffe
#35. Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.
Ram Dass
#36. I always think that it's wrong to put images of my protagonists on the cover of my novels because readers can identify with characters only if they are given the chance to imagine them independently.
Orhan Pamuk
#37. Novels are political because in them, we try to identify with people who are not like us. And, in that sense, I like the first-person singular because I have to imitate accurately the voice of someone who is not like me. The third-person singular gives me an authority over a character.
Orhan Pamuk
#38. But when this happens to you - and I think other people would identify with this - suddenly, colors are brighter. You see everything.
Lynn Redgrave
#39. I'll instinctively know that I identify with a character.
David Duchovny
#40. His eyes are wild, psychotic slits that bat-dance in your soul looking for good things to crush or bad elements to identify with.
Irvine Welsh
#41. Public opinion polls have long proved there is majority support for pretty much every issue that the women's movement has brought up, but those of us, women or men, who identify with feminism are still made to feel isolated, wrong, out of step.
Gloria Steinem
#42. A child can identify with adult characters- but only if they are sympathetically drawn and simple enough.
Edmund Wallace Hildick
#43. The ego is just waiting to identify with anything. Whether it's your misery or being a great meditator, it seeks some identification.
Eckhart Tolle
#44. What bothers me about the whole trust-fund thing is that it sort of presumes that everything is handed to you. And if there is one thing about my family that I do identify with, it is that everyone is extremely hardworking.
Rooney Mara
#45. For spiritual teachers, it is important not to identify with the image people inevitably have of them.
Eckhart Tolle
#46. Actually I'm pretty adamant about, you know, the whole God thing and it seems that skeptics are by and large atheists or something approaching that, which I strongly identify with. So it turned out to be a good thing and I have become enthusiastically part of it.
Jamie Hyneman
#47. People identify with being heartbroken. We've all been heartbroken, haven't we? I've been dumped, and it feels horrible.
Rob James-Collier
#48. People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.
Janice Dickinson
#49. I love Tom Wilkinson and Tommy Lee Jones as well as Jessica Chastain. But the person I look up to most, not because I identify with her roles but because of who she is as a person, is Sissy Spacek.
Jordan Gavaris
#50. Vladimir Nabokov, contemning readers who "identified" with characters in fiction, remarked that the best readers identify with the artist.
Joseph Epstein
#51. People have to identify with something to show they have reached a certain goal. Anyway, in Russia it's done with medals. You put on all these medals to show who you are.
Emilio Pucci
#52. I would hope that people, no matter what age, would find something to identify with in my books, pick one up and experience a personal sense of discovery. That's great. But for them, not for me.
Shel Silverstein
#53. There are a bunch of images that are thrown in our faces all the time about what we're supposed to look like at 14, 15, 16. It's confusing. I think every woman can identify with that struggle.
Zoe Kravitz
#54. When we grow in spiritual consciousness, we identify with all that is in the world there is no exploitation. It is ourselves we're helping, ourselves we're healing.
Govindappa Venkataswamy
#55. Adversity has its compensations, that in falling, and in failing, we rise. It is as if there is a hand behind us that sets to right all imbalances. Why do you think the saints seldom had the temporal power that we mistakenly identify with the fruits of justice? Do you think they needed it, or cared?
Mark Helprin
#56. Connecting is the ability to identify with people and relate to them in a way that increases your influence with them.
John C. Maxwell
#57. I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose.
Erica Jong
#58. Style as a concept has been hijacked to mean elite, refined and expensive when it should be thought of as a basic expression of life in much the same way as we all identify with music or speech.
Scott Schuman
#59. If you would truly bring peace to the world, identify with that place within you where you are Peace.
Ram Dass
#60. I've been blessed with some lovely scripts and a character that people could truly identify with. It's one of those surprises in life that makes you think, 'God was smiling on me that particular day.
Dwight Schultz
#61. Our feelings are formations, impermanent and without substance. We learn not to identify with ourselves with our feelings, not to consider them as a self, not to seek refuge in them, not to die because of them.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#62. It's not necessarily what a family is typically supposed to look like. But it is what it is. It's about a connection and bond that everyone can identify with.
Queen Latifah
#63. Feminism is a word that I identify with. The term has become synonymous with vitriolic man-hating but it needs to come back to a place where both men and women can embrace it. It is particularly important for women in developing countries.
Annie Lennox
#64. For me, it's the slow release of my ego and certain belief systems that I identify with that give me comfort and an identity, and it's scary to let go of that.
Richard Brancatisano
#65. When you realize that the ego is making you miserable you don't identify with it. You identify with your soul's humility and the ego dissolves.
Frederick Lenz
#66. I played baseball in college but I didn't identify with the jocks, I was in my own little world .
Nicholas Brendon
#67. You see people you identify with, and you take pieces of people you like and shape who you are. Like, I sound just like my dad. But that's literally my vocal chords. I can't sound like anything else ... I sound like him, but I act like myself.
Damon Wayans Jr.
#68. The percentage of the citizenry that embrace and identify with the nation's virtues, with the nation's value system, determine the true wealth of that nation
Sunday Adelaja
#69. When it comes to culture, religion and mentality, most Russians identify with Europe.
Sergei Ivanov
#70. we can certainly understand and identify with one. And the more vivid that one, the better.
Amy Cuddy
#71. To fund major cultural efforts, we must not rely alone on government and foundation patronage; if the farmer can spend for beer, he can pay for good entertainment which he can understand, which he can identify with and which will fortify his spirit.
F. Sionil Jose
#72. My mood, as I identify with each of my heroes, resembles what I used to feel when I played alone as a child. Like all children, I liked to play make-believe, to put myself in someone else's place and imagine dream worlds in which I was a soldier, a famous soccer player, or a great hero.
Orhan Pamuk
#73. Television series always have a lot of characters because you want people to identify with someone on the show, who will be your eyes.
Robert Rodriguez
#74. Attempting to identify with the source is an idea. You are already that.
Mooji
#75. In a moment of grace, we can grasp eternity in the palm of our hand. This is the gift given to creative individuals who can identify with the mysteries of life through art.
Marcel Marceau
#76. Flaws reveal a lot about a character and who people are. The flawed elements of a character are where I find their humanity. Those are the things I tend to identify with - the weaknesses. I don't know why, but I identify with struggle more than with success.
Liev Schreiber
#77. If there is one thing about my family that I do identify with, it is that everyone is extremely hardworking. Also, the people whom I grew up with all did things they really loved. And I think that's an important lesson.
Rooney Mara
#78. There are no categories in contemporary art. There are no rules. Artists are given the freedom to make and create whatever they please and call it whatever they please. I identify with that system, or lack of system, much more than I do the landscape of contemporary publishing.
James Frey
#79. If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God's poetic justice.
Timothy Keller
#80. People also like partnerships because they can identify with the drama of two people in partnership. They can feed off a partnership, and that keeps people entertained. Besides, if you have a successful partnership, it's self-sustaining.
Mick Jagger
#81. I've lived in America for many years. I mean, I love being a Canadian, but I truly identify with America. I love America so much.
Paul Haggis
#82. I soak up personalities and energy. I can identify with anything because truthfully everything that makes up the world is characterized in some way in my family I feel, so my empathy is strong for mankind in general.
Aeriel Miranda
#83. I will forever and always identify with Scarborough - no matter where I move.
Lilly Singh
#84. All over the walls of my room are pictures of Peter Pan. I've read everything that Barrie wrote. I totally identify with Peter Pan, the lost boy from Never Neverland.
Michael Jackson
#85. Who am I, if I'm not this singer with big high notes? I identify with my voice. But I'm more than just the acrobatics.
Idina Menzel
#86. It just seduces you when you read a story and your brain relates to it. You recognize or connect with it. You identify with it; you're bound to.
Danny Boyle
#87. Working is very important to me. Probably because as a child I was taught that work was good. I don't believe it intellectually but I identify with that idea. So it's probably just like a habit.
Jasper Johns
#88. I believe there are people out there that just have a warrior spirit, whether it's fighting or something, they've got to do it. It's hard to identify with me; it's just something I do.
Evan Tanner
#89. It's normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self's agenda.
Nhat Hanh
#90. I identify very proudly as a disabled woman. I identify with the crip community. I didn't invent the word 'crip'. It's a political ideology I came to in my late teens and early 20s.
Stella Young
#91. Charlie Brown is the one person I identify with. C.B. is such a loser. He wasn't even the star of his own Halloween special.
Chris Rock
#92. I think the way Win Butler writes, I really identify with it. He writes very emotionally and very cinematically, and I just connect with his sensibility.
Spike Jonze
#93. I don't know if a penny's dropped somewhere, but you've had 'Lark Rise to Candleford,' you've had 'Cranford,' you've had 'Last Tango in Halifax,' you've had 'Call the Midwife' ... I think the largest portion of the viewing public are over 55, and they like to see people they can identify with.
Judy Parfitt
#94. I was the first advertising person who people could identify with.
Jerry Della Femina
#95. My poems are almost all written as Diane. I don't have any problems with that, and if other women choose to identify with this, I think that's terrific.
Diane Wakoski
#96. Sport is a product of human culture. America seems to need football at this state of our social development. When you get ninety million people watching a single game on television, it ... shows you that people need something to identify with.
Joe Paterno
#97. You cannot be protected from the things that frighten you and hurt you, but if you identify with the part of your being that is responsible for transformation, then you aare always the equal, or more than the equal of the things that frighten you.
Jordan B. Peterson
#98. Ironically, it is when we identify with our spirits rather than our bodies that we are most powerful on the material plane. Our overidentification with the world does not give us power within the world so much as it diminishes our power here. It makes us frightened and nervous and full of anxiety.
Marianne Williamson
#99. If you identify with a mental position, then if you are wrong, your mind-based sense of self is seriously threatened with annihilation. So you as the ego cannot afford to be wrong. To be wrong is to die. Wars have been fought over this, and countless relationships have broken down.
Eckhart Tolle
#100. I'm hoping to do a Broadway musical on the life of Rasputin. He's someone I can definitely identify with.
Ozzy Osbourne
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