Self-knowledge quotes

I am a doctor of philosophy from Edinburgh, a doctor of law from Christ's College, a doctor of medicine from Harvard. My friends, out of courtesy, call me "Doctor".
Boris Karloff - Dr. Fu Manchu

“Someone once said, live everyday as if it were your last, cause one of these its gonna be. Jack was right, a part of me did die that day, the part of me that didn't know how to live.”
Angelina Jolie - Lanie Kerrigan

“I am a nice shark, not a mindless eating machine. If I am to change this image, I must first change myself. Fish are friends, not food.”

John Barry Humphries - Bruce

“- Kathy: So what's important to you?
- Johnny: If you're not true to yourself then you're not true to nobody. Live your life for someone else, you're not living.”
Kristin Minter - Kathy
Vanilla Ice - Johnny

“We'll all grow up one day, Meg. We might as well know what we want.”
Kirsten Dunst - Younger Amy March

“It will steal your secrets, corrupt your dreams, and co-opt your identity. Because in this world, where you can be anything you want, anyone you want, you just might lose sight of who you are.”

Halle Berry - Ro

“- Vesper Lynd: I'm afraid I'm a complicated woman.
- James Bond: That is something to be afraid of.”
Eva Green - Vesper Lynd
Daniel Craig - James Bond

“- John Converse: Don't they say this is where everybody finds out who they are?
- Ray Hicks: Yeah? What a bummer for the gooks.”

Michael Moriarty - John Converse
Nick Nolte - Ray Hicks

“You don't know me, but I know me.”
Ryan Gosling - Noah

“We know we have fallen, for we know who we are.”
Thomas Jay Ryan - Henry Fool

“Okay... you know what? I don't feel protected. You try living for 15 years thinking that you're one person, and then in five minutes, you find out you're a princess. Just in case I wasn't enough of a freak already, let's add a tiara!”
Anne Hathaway - Mia Thermopolis

“We all need mirrors to remind ourselves who we are.”
Guy Pearce - Leonard Shelby

“It's a funny feeling, not knowing who you are. I get a bump on the head and I'm free as a bird.”
James Franco - Harry Osborn

“I'm loud, darling, but never cheap.”
Jaye Davidson - Dil

“- Mufasa: Simba, you have forgotten me.
- Simba: No. How could I?
- Mufasa: You have forgotten who you are and so have forgotten me. Look inside yourself Simba. You are more than what you have become. You must take your place in the Circle of life.”

James Earl Jones - Mufasa
Matthew Broderick - Simba

“- Victor Melling: In place of friends and relationships, you have sarcasm and a gun!
- Gracie Hart: Oh, I have sarcasm? When every word that comes out of your mouth is dripping with disdain?
- Victor Melling: Ah! That is because I am a miserable, grumpy elitist and that works for me!
- Gracie Hart: You know what? I don't have relationships...” (continue)(continue reading)
Sir Michael Caine - Victor Melling
Sandra Bullock - Gracie Hart

“I'm a lot of things. A liar's not one of them. Especially not in front of my mammy.”
Bernie Mac - Bobby Bolivia

“How am I not myself?”
Jude Law - Brad Stand

“- Phyllis Dietrichson: We're both rotten.
- Walter Neff: Only you're a little more rotten.”
Barbara Stanwyck - Phyllis Dietrichson
Fred MacMurray - Walter Neff

“- Psychologist: You know, some folks believe everyone has a public life, a private life, and a secret life. What do you think about that?
- Dan Mahowny: The thing is, I guess... that my secret life... is a bit less secret than everyone else's right now.”
Eric Fink - Psychologist
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Dan Mahowny

“I am my own biggest distraction.”
Sean Penn - Eddie

“Identity is nothing but a mental construct.”
Lily Tomlin - Mary Schlichting

“We are who we are... even if we sometimes forget it.”
Tommy Lee Jones - Kay

“A true Ninja is a master of himself and his environment, so don't forget: We're turtles!”
Mark Caso - Leonardo

“A man hasn't any idea what his soul looks like until he gazes into the eyes for the woman that he's married to. And then, if he's any kind of decent human being, he spends the next couple of days throwing up. Because no honest man can stand that image.”
Danny DeVito - Phil Cooper