Self-knowledge quotes

“- Jor-El: So, my son. Speak.
- Young Clark Kent: Who am I?
- Jor-El: Your name is Kal-El. You are the only survivor of the planet Krypton. Even though you've been raised as a human, you are not one of them. You have great powers, only some of which you have as yet discovered.”
Marlon Brando - Jor-El
Jeff East - Young Clark Kent

“He made me realize that I wasn't just some hot babe with huge tits, even though I am.”
Big Boy - Fluisa

“Kind of makes you mad not to know who you are? Your soul disappears, nothing is bad as uncertainty. Maybe you're not supposed to be Spider-Man climbing those walls? That's why you keep falling. You'll always have a choice.”

Gregg Edelman - Dr. Davis

“In my whole life, I felt like an animal. I ignored my instincts, and I ignored what I really am. And that won't ever happen again.”
Hugh Jackman - Logan

“- Hauser: Howdy, stranger! This is Hauser. If things have gone wrong, I'm talking to myself and you don't have a wet towel around your head. Now, whatever your name is, get ready for the big surprise. You are not you, you're me.
- Douglas Quaid: No shit.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Hauser
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Douglas Quaid

“When I arrived here, I was nothing like I am now. I was confused; a walking contradiction, and I was so full of questions.”
Mr. T - The Bearded Lady

“- Clouseau: Tell me about her.
- Ponton: I consider her the most beautiful woman in the world. What about yourself?
- Clouseau: No, I don't consider myself a beautiful woman.”

Steve Martin - Clouseau
Jean Reno - Ponton

“What's bullshit, Mr. Quaid? That you're having a paranoid episode triggered by acute neuro-chemical trauma? Or that you're really an invincible secret agent from Mars who's the victim of an interplanetary conspiracy to make him think he's a lowly construction worker?”
Roy Brocksmith - Dr. Edgemar

“It's possible for a person to go their whole lives without ever listening to their soul.”
Brad Renfro - Wichita

"There but for the grace of God", they say, as if our bodies were who we are. Well it's not; our souls are who we are, only they don't know it.
Andy Davoli - Jake Perini

“You are good. You may not know it, but I do. You come on tough, but it's all just an act. I mean, you don't even believe in sleeping together before marriage.”
Jason Lee - Jack Withrowe

“- Damien Thorn: Why are you running away from me, Mark?
- Mark Thorn: I know who you are.
- Damien Thorn: You do?”
Jonathan Scott-Taylor - Damien Thorn
Lucas Donat - Mark Thorn

“Journalism is the art of capturing behavior and you have to know who you are writing for, you have to know what you're good at.”
Hayden Christensen - Stephen Glass

“I like being bad. It makes me happy.”
Christopher Grace - Venom

“- Kathy: Listen to reason for once, Selma!
- Selma: I listen to my heart.”
Catherine Deneuve - Kathy
Björk - Selma Jezkova

“I'm a very difficult person, but I take comfort in the fact that God made me that way.”

Ed Harris - Ludwig van Beethoven

“- Malcolm X: Man, who are you?
- Baines: No, the question is who are you? Well, I'll tell you. You are lost in the darkness. But the Elijah Muhammad has come to bring you into the light. Elijah Muhammad can get you out of prison. Out of the prison of your mind.”
Denzel Washington - Malcolm X
Albert Hall - Baines

“Now we all have a great need for acceptance, but you must trust that your beliefs are unique, your own, even though others may think them odd or unpopular.”
Robin Williams - John Keating

“- Arthur: I am wasting away. I cannot die and I cannot live.
- Perceval: Drink from the chalice. You will be reborn and the land with you.
- Arthur: Perceval... I didn't know how empty was my soul... until it was filled.”
Nigel Terry - King Arthur
Paul Geoffrey - Perceval

“He realized that all his life he had been a nobody to everyone. What he now felt was the fear of his own oblivion. It was as though he did not exist.”

Sir John Hurt - Narrator

“- Bernadette: We've only recently discovered that young Anthony here, bats for both teams.
- Mitzi: I do not!
- Felicia: Oh, so we're straight?
- Mitzi: No.
- Felicia: Oh, we're not. So we're a donut puncher, after all?
- Mitzi: No.
- Felicia: Then what the hell are we?
- Mitzi: I don't fuckin' know.”
Terence Stamp - Bernadette
Hugo Weaving - Mitzi
Guy Pearce - Felicia

“We're all so much more complicated than our names.”
Gerard Butler - Dracula

“I wanna tell you a little secret, being The One is just like being in love. No one needs to tell you you are in love, you just know it, through and through.”
Gloria Foster - Oracle

“- Hephaistion: What would you do if you ever reached the end of the world? I wonder sometimes, if it's not your mother you run from, so many years, so many miles between you, what is it you fear?
- Alexander: Who knows these things? When I was a child my mother thought me divine; my father, weak. Which am I, Hephaistion? Weak or divine?”
Jared Leto - Hephaistion
Colin Farrell - Alexander

“- Z: The whole system makes me feel... insignificant!
- Psychologist: Excellent. You've made a real breakthrough.
- Z: I have?
- Psychologist: Yes, Z. You are insignificant.”
Woody Allen - Z
Paul Mazursky - Psychologist