Self-knowledge quotes

“Ah, that sad and bewildering moment when you are no longer the cherished darling, but must turn the corner and try to be funny.”
Billie Burke

“I allow myself to be understood as a colourful fragment in a drab world.”
Errol Flynn

“I felt like an impostor, taking all that money for reciting ten or twelve lines of nonsense a day.”
Errol Flynn

“No matter what label is thrown your way, only you can define yourself.”
Mae Whitman - Bianca Piper

“I like to be introduced as America's foremost actor. It saves the necessity of further effort.”
John Barrymore

“I'm a mental patient. I'm supposed to act out! Wait'll you morons find out who I am! My father's gonna be really upset, and when my father gets upset, the ground shakes! My father is God! I worship my father!”
Brad Pitt - Jeffrey Goines

“I am a lethal killing machine. It was a secret government experiment. They did stuff to me. Spooky stuff... anal stuff. It turned me into a dangerous telekinetic.”
Chris Evans - Jensen

“We cling to memories as if they define us, but... they really don't. What we do is what defines us.”
Juliette Binoche - Dr. Ouelet

“Your real strength comes from being your best you.”
Jack Black - Po

“The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself.”
Patrick McGoohan

“I feel like I'm still a kid practically, but your teachers and your parents and everybody's got everything planned out for you with high expectations. But what if it has nothing to do with you? You lose track of yourself, and that's fake!”

Erika Christensen - Hannah Kingsley

“My love for you was the most important thing in my life. For better or worse, it made me understand who I am.”

Michael Fassbender - Carl Jung

“I've been everywhere and seen everything and done everything. I've had a very bad time, Nicky. I'm pretty cynical about everything.”
Carey Mulligan - Daisy Buchanan

“And I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.”

Ansel Elgort - Gus

“I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.”
Sir Michael Caine

“Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.”
Sir Michael Caine

“Most of the time I just keep to myself. I think like what it would be like to be... someone else.”
Leonardo DiCaprio - Hank

“I think of myself as an assistant storyteller.”
Harrison Ford

“I'm still a kid. I'm like six years old. But it's just a matter of wanting to get up, it's just a big journey. I felt like when I left home that I was on a journey, and I still am.”
Heath Ledger

“I'm not the kind of person who tries to be cool or trendy, I'm definitely an individual.”
Leonardo DiCaprio

“I'm a serious-minded and intense little devil... terribly gauche... and so tense I don't see how people stay in the same room with me. I know I wouldn't tolerate myself!”
James Dean

“- Annie: Hey mister, what was I doing out in the ocean?
- Dean Proffitt: That's something you like to do, go fishing for oysters at night
- Annie: Oysters in a cold ocean at night, doesn't sound like me!”
Goldie Hawn - Annie
Kurt Russell - Dean Proffitt

“- Jack Sparrow: You've seen it all, done it all. Survived. That's the trick isn't it? To survive?
- Captain Teague: It's not just about living forever, Jackie. The trick is still living with yourself forever.”
Johnny Depp - Jack Sparrow
Keith Richards - Captain Teague

“I need to collect myself... Alright. It's you and I. No way out. Get your shit together. Okay? Okay. Let's go.”
River Phoenix - Devo

“Everyone comes to Zootopia, thinking they could be anything they want. But you can't. You can only be what you are.”
Jason Bateman - Nick Wilde