Self-knowledge quotes
468 self-knowledge quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- From the movie: Tugboat Annie Sails Again
“For the first time in my life, I'm gonna forget I'm a lady.”
- From the movie: Regression
“I'm not one of you... I'm not one of you!”
- From the movie: Jem and the Holograms
“The version of me that they want doesn't exist.”
- La trovi in Actors in real life
“I'm a risk-taker. I like to test myself.”
- From the movie: Chicago
“He was a real artistic guy, sensitive, a painter. But he was always trying to find himself. He'd go out every night looking for himself. And on the way, he found Ruth. Gladys. Rosemary. And Irving. I guess you could say we broke up because of artistic differences. He saw himself as alive. And I saw him dead.”
- From the movie: Altered States
“Ever since we dispensed with God we've got nothing but ourselves to explain this meaningless horror of life. That first self is real... and I'm going to find the fucker.”
- From the movie: The Accountant
“When you interrupt somebody like that, it makes them feel that you're just not interested in what they have to say. Or maybe you think what you have to say is just more important that what I have to say. Is that what you think?”
- From the movie: The Truman Show
“- Christof: I know you better than you know yourself.
- Truman Burbank: You never had a camera in my head!” - From the movie: Bruce Almighty
“Since when does anyone have a clue about what they want?”
- From the movie: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
“I'm afraid of time. And not having enough of it. Time to figure out who I'm supposed to be, to find my place in the world before I have to leave it. I'm afraid of what I'll miss.”
- From the movie: Doctor Dolittle
“Let me tell you a little something about nature. I'm a dog, and I act like a dog. I don't try to be anybody else. We are who we are, and you are a doctor who can talk to animals. That's who you are.”
- From the movie: Without Limits
“For the time being, let's not have you working out with the team. You'll be facing Viren all over again at the Montreal Olympics. I don't want you racing anyone now. I just want you running. You have to explore the limits of the one competitor above everyone else you've always loved to face... Steve Prefontaine.”
- La trovi in Life and Death in Hollywood
“When you're old, you are more certain of who you are, and that may be a good thing or a bad thing.”
- From the movie: This Means War
- From the movie: The Tao of Steve
“- Dex: What are you excellent at?
- Dave: I'm an excellent camper.
- Dex: But you can't camp in front of a woman.” - From the movie: Max
- From the movie: Sleeping with Other People
“- Lainey: If you want someone to fall for you, you gotta be you.
- Jake: Yeah I don't think I like me enough to introduce him to other people.” - From the movie: The General's Daughter
- From the movie: Mistress America
“She could see the world with painful accuracy, but she couldn't see herself or her fate. And because I was in love with her I decided I couldn't see it either.”
- From the movie: Gigli
“You don't tell me what to do, okay? Don't tell me what we might do, don't tell me what we're supposed to do, don't tell me what we maybe should do, don't ever tell me nothing!”
- From the movie: Jersey Girl
- From the movie: High School Musical
“- Gabriella Montez: Did you ever feel like there was a whole other person inside you just looking for a way to come out?
- Taylor: No. Not really.” “I feel like all my faults go into making the person that I am. I like myself as a person. ”
- From the movie: Grace Quigley
“- Seymour Flint: You know, I've never known any old people before.
- Grace Quigley: Neither had I until one day I looked around and discovered I was one.” - From the movie: Saw
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