Self-knowledge quotes

Porthos dreams of being a bear, and you want to shatter those dreams by saying he's just a dog? What a horrible candle-snuffing word. That's like saying "He can't climb that mountain, he's just a man", or "That's not a diamond, it's just a rock".

Johnny Depp - Sir James Matthew Barrie

“Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware.”
Michael McKean

“I read a script and I know immediately whether that role is for me or not.”
Jennifer Coolidge

“I don't think anybody can be told how to act. I think you can give advice. But you have to find your own way through it.”
Dame Judi Dench

“I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination.”
Dame Judi Dench

“- Dr. Douglas Grey: Throw it on the mirror. This is what she sees now.
- Miranda Grey: A distorted image of herself.
- Dr. Douglas Grey: Who are you in all this?
- Miranda Grey: I'm the mirror.”

Charles S. Dutton - Dr. Douglas Grey
Halle Berry - Miranda Grey

“Arrogance and self-awareness seldom go hand in hand.”

Dame Judi Dench - M

“- Jenny Curran: Do you ever dream, Forrest, about who you're gonna be?
- Forrest Gump: Who I'm gonna be?
- Jenny Curran: Yeah.
- Forrest Gump: Aren't... aren't I going to be me?”
Robin Wright - Jenny Curran
Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump

“- Ebenezer Scrooge: Who are you?
- Jacob Marley: Ask me who I was.
- Ebenezer Scrooge: You're particular for a ghost. Who were you then.
- Jacob Marley: In life I was your partner. Jacob Marley.”
George C. Scott - Ebenezer Scrooge
Frank Finlay - Jacob Marley

“I have this idea of my best self, and I wanted to pursue that even if it might have been overriding my honest self.”
Ethan Hawke - Jesse

“- Marksman #2: What are you?
- Dorian Gray: I'm complicated.”
Stanislav Adamickij - Marksman #2
Stuart Townsend - Dorian Gray

“Yes, I wear foundation. Yes, I live with a man. Yes, I'm a middle- aged fag. But I know who I am.”
Robin Williams - Armand Goldman

“I am the lead character in my own story.”
Ewen Bremner - Alfonz

I had a few nightmares, which really excited them. They even have a clinical term for it, "Repressed Memory Anxiety", which I think sounds a tad bit overdramatic. But now they spend every morning trying to tap my subconscious fears. Fears so scary I don't even know I have them.

Erika Christensen - Deanna Cartwright

“Style, no matter how outrageous it is, is still an expression of someone's personality. And my personality is somewhere stuck in the classics.”
Liev Schreiber

“I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy.”
Jane Campion

“I'm a lot less cranky when it's just me and my dog.”
Bob Peterson

“I'm a strong-minded director with a very clear sense of what I want to do, and I just want to be left alone to do it.”
Karyn Kusama

“I think I have a pattern of nice and lovely and then dark and twisted.”
Ryan Murphy

“I'm part of the consumer culture.”
Michel Gondry

“- Mr. Darrell Sherman: You're a liar!
- Principal Claude Rolle: I know. It upsets me too.”
Glenn Plummer - Mr. Darrell Sherman
Ernie Hudson - Principal Claude Rolle

“I'm a good person, but a shitty writer. You're a shitty person, but a good writer. I think we'd make a good team.”

Ansel Elgort - Gus

“I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.”
Ted Kotcheff

“I've been nothin' but myself since the day I was born, and if you can't see that it's your failin', not mine.”
Albert Finney - Ed Bloom - Senior

“I don't know what I'm looking for. I don't even know who I am.”

Johnny Depp - Rango