Self-knowledge quotes

“I might not know who I am but I know who I'm not, I'm not someone who lets her country down.”
Salma Hayek - Sara Sandoval

“Being an actor is always a struggle. Acting is the greatest profession because you're dealing with yourself all the time. It supports the self-discovery process.”
Kyle MacLachlan

“- James Conrad: Are you all right?
- Mason Weaver: I don't know how to answer that question right now.”
Tom Hiddleston - James Conrad
Brie Larson - Mason Weaver

“Don't look at someone else and want to be them. Search within yourself and find out who you are and be someone positive.”
Kelly Rowland

“I'm not a poet, I am a person living with Early Onset Alzheimer's, and as that person, I find myself learning the art of losing every day.”

Julianne Moore - Dr. Alice Howland

“People believe what they want to believe. You have to run your race and be proud of the person you see in the mirror.”
Adam Richman

“Lady Bracknell, I hate to seem inquisitive, but would you kindly inform me who I am?”
Colin Firth - Jack

“You need to realize you're only as awesome as you think you are.”
Robbie Amell - Wesley Rush

“Oh, I made a lot of mistakes. I'm just trying not to make 'em twice.”
Maggie Gyllenhaal - Jean Craddock

“So far, I've been a rebellious teenager, lover, waitress, gallery director, nanny, and a whore. And not necessarily in that order. I can't just be a wife anymore. That's why I stay awake at night, staring at the ceiling. In fact, the only time I feel like myself is when I'm running.”
Haley Bennett - Megan

“Find out what you don't want to know about yourself, what you're afraid of.”
Linda Evans

“It doesn't really matter the judgement of other men. I know what I've done.”
Chris Cooper - Robert Hanssen

“I know me better than anyone... because I live in here... and nobody else can.”
Tom Cruise - Stacee Jaxx

“- Rocky Balboa: Prove what?
- Adonis Johnson: That I'm not a mistake!”
Sylvester Stallone - Rocky Balboa
Micheal B. Jordan - Adonis Johnson

“I think that to be really really good you have to come from some place inside that I'm just not sure I have.”
Amy Adams - Susan Morrow

“That's the thing I like most about Amy. She didn't have any airs. She was real... She was just a charming, sweet lady.”

Yasiin Bey - Yasiin Bey

“You'll have the chance to do something... something courageous. And when you do, you'll discover something. That you're a good man.”

Keira Knightley - Elizabeth Swann

“- Joy: This is me.
- Neil Walker: This is you? You’ve got the exact same outfit you had when you came in here.
- Joy: I wear a blouse and I wear pants. That’s who I am. I want to go on as me.”

Jennifer Lawrence - Joy
Bradley Cooper - Neil Walker

“We are who we protect, I think. What we stand up for.”
Audrey Tautou - Sophie Neveu

“Your story may not have such a happy beginning, but that doesn't make you who you are. It is the rest of your story, who you choose to be.”
Michelle Yeoh - Soothsayer

“Dancing is about being exactly who you want to be in that moment.”

Romola Garai - Katey Miller

“We never see ourselves as others see us.”
Oliver Hardy

“- Bill: Thank you for inviting me to participate in your life, for I am an asshole. And being an asshole is neither good nor bad. It just is.
- Reverend Spike: I think that says it all.
- Harvey Holroyd: These are exciting times, aren't they? Gas is over a dollar a gallon and it's okay to be an asshole.”
Sam Chew Jr. - Bill
Tom Smothers - Spike
Martin Mull - Harvey

“- Lena: I'm kind of jealous of her. Because she knows who she is.
- Kostas: Don't you?
- Lena: I don't know. I think I know who I wanna be.”
Alexis Bledel - Lena
Michael Rady - Kostas

“Do you know who Maui is? Only the greatest demi-god of all the Pacific Islands, with his magical fish hook he slowed down the sun, pulled islands out of the sea, battled monsters! And I should know, because I'm Maui.”
The Rock - Maui