Self-knowledge quotes
468 self-knowledge quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- La trovi in Reputation and Popularity
“My problem was I let myself become known before I knew myself.”
- La trovi in Motivational Quotes
“You can't be something that you don't have within yourself.”
- From the movie: The Weather Man
“I remember once imagining what my life would be like, what I'd be like. I pictured having all these qualities, strong positive qualities that people could pick up on from across the room. But as time passed, few ever became any qualities that I actually had. And all the possibilities I faced and the sorts of people I could be, all of them got...” (continue)(continue reading)
- La trovi in Actors in real life
“I'm a passionate trade unionist.”
- From the movie: A Guy Thing
“I'm a pants salesman. I think I know how to act around people.”
- From the movie: The Mummy Returns
“If a man does not embrace his past, he has no future.”
- From the movie: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“I often talk aloud to myself. I find it extraordinarily useful.”
- From the movie: Batman Begins
“It's not who I am underneath... but what I do... that defines me.”
- From the movie: Dead Poets Society
“For the first time in my whole life, I know what I wanna do! And for the first time, I'm gonna do it! Whether my father wants me to or not! Carpe diem!”
- From the movie: Finding Forrester
- From the movie: 42
“I don't care if they like me. I didn't come here to make friends. I don't even care if they respect me. I know who I am.”
“I think that human beings, even the ones who are sometimes hurting you, are often very, very confused at their center.”
- From the movie: Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
“We are not defined by where we’re from, but by who we love.”
- From the movie: Coyote Ugly
- From the movie: Mamma Mia!
- From the movie: Alice in Wonderland
- Cheshire Cat: What do you call yourself?
- Alice: Alice.
- Cheshire Cat: "The" Alice?
- Alice: There's been some debate about that.
- Cheshire Cat: I never get involved in politics. - From the movie: The Elephant Man
“I am not an elephant! I am not an animal! I am a human being! I am a man!”
- From the movie: Ferdinand
“t seems like from the moment you’re born people think they got you all figured out, based on how you look, how you talk, where you’re from. But it’s not that simple, especially when it comes to me. I’m a little bit more complex.”
- From the movie: Replicas
“- Will Foster: We're the sum total of what has happened to us and how we processed it. That's what makes us us. It's all neurochemistry.
- Mona: Do you really believe that? That's all I am? Your children? Just pathways, electrical signals and chemistry? You have kids that love you and a wife that adores you and we have a scientist.” - La trovi in Motivational Quotes
“Everyone goes through that time in their life when they're trying to figure out who they are, find their own purpose and their own way.”
- From the movie: 8½
“All the confusion of my life... has been a reflection of myself! Myself as I am, not as I'd like to be.”
- La trovi in Relationships in Hollywood
“I have a fairly pragmatic view on all those bullies that came before, because everybody makes you who you are now.”
“Our deep desires define us, really.”
“The music I make and the process of acting, for me, are both about trying to understand people and get inside what makes us tick. That's the main thing that excites me. Our sense of who we really are and what drives us.”
“Honestly, I think I've stretched a talent which is so thin it's almost transparent over quite an unbelievable term of years.”
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