Quotes About Who I Really Am

#1. Be careful..you're all I've got left, to remind me who I really am.

Garth Nix

#2. Accept me for who iam or leave me the way iam, for a true image of God needs no Photoshop and the core of who i really am has no settings

Morgan Chabane

#3. I never faked anything. I never played the Disney game of smiling and being a princess and then suddenly having a hard time, saying, 'That isn't who I really am.'

Miley Cyrus

#4. This sounds fine with me, I like the idea of seeing a shrink once a week as maintenance. It's another chance to talk about myself without being interrupted. Plus, a shrink doesn't really know me, so I can present a more balanced picture of who I really am.

Augusten Burroughs

#5. It took me 30 years to figure out who I really am, as a person, and who I want to surround myself with. I was very much the kind of person who would just meld in with whatever group I was near.

Katie Aselton

#6. Who I really am is the mother of six kids and Woody's wife.

Anne Northup

#7. Does it really matter if I choose the bus over a BMW, and generic over Gucci? Because the car, the wardrobe, the zip code-those are just nouns, things that are fun to have around, sure, but in the end, they have nothing to do with the real me. Nothing to do with who I really am.

Alyson Noel

#8. What happens is, when I perform, I'm somewhere else. I go back in time and get in touch with who I really am. I forget my troubles, my worries.

Etta James

#9. Why do you do it, Amber? Why do you go after people like you do? It's not who you are."

"That's the point," Amber said. "I'm not allowed to be who I really am.

Cole Gibsen

#10. I want people to see that I'm a real person, I overreact, I cry, I'm emotional. If I come across as perfect and in control, that wouldn't be who I really am.

Tamara Ecclestone

#11. Rob Petrie is who I really am - in personality and general ineffectiveness.

Dick Van Dyke

#12. People are always introducing me as Sarah Silverman, Jewish comedienne. I hate that! I wish people would see me for who I really am - I'm white!

Sarah Silverman

#13. I try to be self-disciplined with my thoughts. It's our thoughts that matter most, and all the rest falls into line behind that: if I remember who I really am and why I'm on the earth, then I more naturally want to treat my body like a temple and so forth.

Marianne Williamson

#14. Today I am someone different. Today I have finally become who I really am.

C. JoyBell C.

#15. The closer I get back to being who I really am, the stronger the music gets.

Billy Corgan

#16. What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.

Laetitia Casta

#17. Once a person says, "This is who I really am, what I am all about, what I was really meant to do," it is easier to decide how to spend one's time.

David Viscott

#18. I'm terrified of just being myself because I think it's boring. I know who I really am and I think it's boring.

Sufjan Stevens

#19. But now everything's gone bad,and I only know one thing: I have six days.

Six days to figure out who I really am.

Walter Sorrells

#20. If I want my life to matter, these eyes can't see who I really am.

Who I'm striving hard not to be.

The homeless girl hiding in front of them.

Brenda Rufener

#21. I hide myself in my words. There's a cipher, and one half is in my writing and the other half is in me, and if you have them both then you'll understand everything. Strangers think it's just a story, but you'll know what's real. You'll know who I really am.

Leah Raeder

#22. I always appear behind a mask. As such, I can visit my own exhibitions without any visitors knowing who I really am even if I stand a few steps away from them.

Invader

#23. Look at 4chan culture, which is the ultimate version of shedding your IRL [in real life] identity - you don't even keep a consistent screen name from thread to thread. That's very important to them, this belief in the possibility that what I do online is completely separate from who I really am.

Arthur Chu

#24. Forget who I really am, who I really want to be.

Nikki Grimes

#25. I'm terrified of learning the truth. About my mission. About Axton. About who I really am, and what I'm capable of doing. I'd rather stay in denial. Because if there's one thing I'm certain of, it's that I'm not going to like the truth of my apparent new reality.

Siobhan Davis

#26. I've never been afraid to be who I really am on screen.

Halle Berry

#27. I don't care if I'm different,' she said. 'I just want to be who I really am.

Cassandra Clare

#28. I tried to be someone else, but nothing seemed to change. I know now, this is who I really am inside. I've finally found myself, fighting for a chance.
I know now, this is who I really am.

Jared Leto

#29. All those months of taking it for granted that Peeta thought I was wonderful are over. Finally, he can see me for who I really am. Violent. Distrustful. Manipulative. Deadly. And I hate him for it.

Suzanne Collins

#30. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what this is.

Stephen Chbosky

#31. Once people take time to find out who I really am you'd be surprised

Tupac Shakur

#32. Then why didn't you tell her. She calls me telling me she loves me telling me that I'm everything to her. She says that you've opened her eyes to who I really am, but does she know who I really am Lexi? Does anyone other than you know who I am?

K.A. Linde

#33. I suppose my Iranian identity is one of the driving forces for being a writer: I want to set the record straight about who I really am.

Said Sayrafiezadeh

#34. I'm right here. This is who I really am. I'm not pretending.

Orson Scott Card

#35. I read somewhere that when I go on stage, people realize that they're not me and they feel better. When I walk off the stage, people know who I really am. I'm not saying it's great comedy, cool comedy or better comedy - but that's what I do, and I do it first for myself.

Richard Lewis

#36. I just want someone to see me, Q. See who I really am. It is what we all want, in the end; to be seen.

Rachel Joyce

#37. I have weathered many different storms and I know who I am and my friends know who I really am.

Delta Goodrem

#38. I don't know how I know that, but I do. I can feel the beat of that truth inside me. Taste it bitter on my tongue.
Sometimes, like now, I didn't think I want to know who I really am.

Elizabeth Scott

#39. Actors play different characters in every project they do. Though it has nothing to do with my craft, the red carpet gives me the opportunity to show who I really am and be myself.

Hailee Steinfeld

#40. Maybe this is who I really am.
Not a loner, exactly.
But someone who can be alone.

Gary Shteyngart

#41. One thing i am sure of is that our brief conversation in the dark showed him who i really am. I am a dumb fuck.

Kyung-Sook Shin

#42. What most people know about me, they know through my music. This time, I've tried to open that door as wide as possible. These songs are a giant step closer to who I really am and what my music is all about. Hence the title.

Josh Groban

#43. Who I really am keeps surprising me.

Nikki Giovanni

#44. Looking back, perhaps the single biggest problem was fear. Fear of failure, fear of other people, but mostly fear of myself. It has taken sixty years to discover who I really am. It's never too late to find yourself however lost you may be.

Lynda Bellingham

#45. The real question is, can you love the real me? Not the perfect person you want me to be, not that image you had of me, but who I really am.

Christine Feehan

#46. I can make whatever choices I want in my life, and I will live with the consequences of those choices. But if I want to live a life close to my deepest desires, I have to risk knowing who I really am and have always been. Knowing this, then I can choose.

Oriah Mountain Dreamer

#47. When I can really open myself up to someone and show someone who I really am, it's amazing when it happens.

Moby

#48. Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am.

Gil Scott-Heron

#49. I used to live an isolated existence, even in relationships, but now my family knows me for who I really am. Mostly, that's a good thing.

Tim Allen

#50. So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. And I'm going to figure out what that is.

Stephen Chbosky

#51. I'm going to do what i want to do.
I'm going to be who i really am.
And i'm going to figure out what that is.
-Sam

Stephen Chbosky

#52. I have found that the process of discovering who I really am begins with knowing who I really don't want to be.

Alcoholics Anonymous

#53. I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am, you might not like it
and that's all I got.

Sabrina Ward Harrison

#54. Today I will let go of my need for approval and my need to be liked. Instead, I will choose to like and approve of myself. The people who count (including me) will respect me when I'm true to who I really am.

Melody Beattie

#55. Before 'Lucky Louie,' nobody would ever cast me to play a mom or a wife; nobody ever saw me in that role, which is weird, since that's who I really am.

Pamela Adlon

#56. I think the biggest misconception about me is people really don't know who I really am. They see the party side of me, they see the crazy side of me. But I also have a laid-back side. You know, I'm chill, down to earth. If you want to grab a cup of coffee and just talk about life, I can do that.

Nicole Polizzi

#57. I think the way I am on stage is probably who I really am. Everything else is a persona. [] It's an unedited version of who you are. For me there's something pure about that

Matthew Bellamy

#58. 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.

Raven-Symone

#59. The worst thing would be for them to find out who I really am, because that's where I hide.

Kelly Lynch

#60. I get to the bottom of why I'm so upset. When I do, it's almost too Mortifying to admit. All this months of taking it for granted that Peeta thought I was wonderful are over. Finally, he can see me for who I really am. Violent. Distrustful. Manipulative. Deadly.

Suzanne Collins

#61. When I take a role I wonder how I can use it to find out who I really am. I don't think I'm so rare a person.

Scott Cohen

#62. Anytime I feel squeezed into a box, I just lash out. My gut reaction is to strike. It's a different character onstage: there's a whole dark sexuality that's completely different from me. You know, I don't let anybody know who I really am.

Scott Weiland

#63. I know that I am essentially a sort of fun-loving person who really just wants to sit around and eat pies.

Nora Ephron

#64. But when I call for a hero, out comes my lazy old self; so I never know who I am, nor how many I am or will be. I'd love to be able to touch a bell and summon the real me, because if I really need myself, I mustn't disappear.

Pablo Neruda

#65. I think my biggest learning experience is that it's okay to be who you are - you don't have to exactly fit the mold of what people think a certain kind of career is. I think that discovery - of really knowing who I am and being okay with that and loving myself - was amazing.

Dree Hemingway

#66. I think I've gotten more attention after the Olympics than any other U.S. athlete, and it's really great that people are recognizing who I am and what I do. You look at Shaq and you see a basketball player. You look at Tiger Woods and you see a golfer. But people are responding to who I am.

Johnny Weir

#67. People ask me all the time what or who my influences are. To be honest, it would take a decent set of encyclopedias to get them all down. I am here today to let the world know my greatest influence, my secret ingredient, really. What inspires me? That's simple: COFFEE.

Corey Taylor

#68. If you are surprised by the things I say and do, then you really haven't paid attention to who I am.

Tanya Masse

#69. Do not let go of your right to make your own decisions, because by doing so you are letting go of who you really are.

Sameh Elsayed

#70. All the people in the Kuo-ch'ing monastery They say, "Han-shan is an idiot." "Am I really an idiot:" I reflect. But my reflections fail to solve the question: for I myself do not know who the self is, And how can others know who I am?

Hanshan

#71. My parents are the ones who really help me be grounded. I still go to school, I still do fun stuff with my friends; for the most part, I am a normal kid. It just so happens that I do some acting too!

Joshua Rush

#72. I am not a person who can really sit around and think about regrets because with every bad experience that you have, there is weirdly something good that comes from it.

Winona Ryder

#73. 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.

Kate Bush

#74. I am at war ... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.

Pam Gems

#75. I realize I love crazy ladies. Of course I don't like to think of myself as one, but maybe I am, too. I dunno. I'm always drawn to them; I think it's because I'm attracted to people who aren't in the business of people-pleasing: saying what they really think, not passive-aggressive at all.

Michaela Watkins

#76. As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.

Oscar Wilde

#77. I am so looking forward to it. I made sure I had a strong foundation before I became pregnant and I think that's the most important thing. There were a lot of things that I wanted to do personally so that when the time came, I really knew who I was and could be the best mother.

Beyonce Knowles

#78. Vision is a romantic thing. We have got into 'talent identification'. I am much more interested in passion - finding people who are really excited about doing something.

Sebastian Coe

#79. I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.

Epictetus

#80. I wanted people to see that I really am a real person. I'm not just some guy who was on a TV show, some guy engulfed in the Hollywood life. I'm just a normal guy when it comes down to it.

Scotty McCreery

#81. I don't have to prove my worth and value to any but those I love, and that I do by being who I am, with confidence that those I love appreciate the good and accept the bad. Does anything else really matter?

R.A. Salvatore

#82. I don't have a problem with recognition ... It's very, very rarely about who I am, it's always, 'I love your work.' ... It's always in relation to my work, which I think is a really lucky thing to have happen as opposed to, 'Oh, you're a famous personality.'

C. C. H. Pounder

#83. I'm really close to my parents and my sisters. It is awesome to have a built-in support system and people who love you unconditionally. I wouldn't be the person I am without my crew!

Marisa Miller

#84. I would just like to be real and be me. It's just really hard to do walking around and everyone knows who I am.

Nick Diaz

#85. I don't really like directing. I've had a good relationship with actors, but I can do what I do and back off. I don't want that much romancing. I don't want them to call me up at two in the morning saying, 'I don't know who I am.

Gordon Willis

#86. I am one of the lucky few who is successful in their career, and I'm really enjoying myself.

Nathan Fillion

#87. I am really inspired by strong, badass, female characters. I would start with a revenge film, then ease into stories of badass everyday woman who make a difference in their own life for the better of people and environment around them. Stories of self realization.

Alicia Sixtos

#88. As an actor, it's much easier for me to get work in the movies because nobody knows who I am except for the work that I've done in another movie. I really enjoy that.

Simon McBurney

#89. You worry me, Mags, so self-contained and quiet. Hazelton would not have been my choice for you."
"Why not?"
"He's a man who dwells in the shadows and appears to like it there. You have enough shadows of your own."
"Maybe he sees me as I really am because shadows don't deter him.

Grace Burrowes

#90. I'm happy with who I am inside. I'd hate to have accolades and all that and not really be happy with who I was. So I'm really thankful for my family and for the support system that I have for being the person that I am today. I'm proud of who I am.

Keke Palmer

#91. I have a song about being in love. I have a song about being supportive. There's inspiring ones, and there's some that show a little bit more fun and daring. It really is a range of who I am.

Rachel Platten

#92. Had our hearts really become so numb that we needed dead bodies in order to feel the beat of compassion in our chests? Who am I if I need to be shocked back into my best self?

Jason Reynolds

#93. I feel like if I am physically and emotionally able to be at the theater, I will be there. I don't like not being there - I don't like playing hooky. I am just one of those people who feels really, really guilty if I am not there - maybe it's part of being Catholic.

Lea Salonga

#94. I don't care about people kissing my ass or telling me how great I am. I don't really give a damn. I read the bad stuff a whole lot more than I read the good stuff. I read that because there are always going to be critics who are going to say how good you aren't.

Richard Sherman

#95. I'm not pretending to be somebody who's got really limited craft skills. I just am a person who's got really limited craft skills.

David Shrigley

#96. It doesn't matter what your pedigree is, who your family is or what degrees you have. What really matters is how you perform your job and how you produce results. Whoever could do the best job, that's who the focus is on - and it definitely doesn't matter if I am a woman or a man.

Gracia Martore

#97. The smartest thing I did was to stop going online. I'm the sort of person who will just look for the negative - Michael really can't understand it, but that's just the way I am. And with my bipolar thing, that's poison. So I just stopped. Cold turkey. And it's so liberating.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

#98. The difference between me in my work and the me who is here in front of you is that on the page I create a consistency, a voice that must sound really reliable; whereas in person I am free - obviously! - to sound every which way.

Vivian Gornick

#99. I think that there are a lot of reasons to be insecure as an actress ... But I don't really have a perception issue. I've been pretty good about being who I am in the public's eye.

Mila Kunis

#100. Being Nigerian is a strong part of my identity. Being American is a strong part of my identity. And there are important parts of who I am that really have nothing to do with my national connection.

Teju Cole