Self-knowledge quotes

“Up until now, you've simply sat in the shadows watching others live out their lives. But what do voyeurs see when they look into the mirror? Now I see you as a strange mix of someone angry, yet apathetic. But mostly just pathetic.”

Tobin Bell - Jigsaw

“Isabelle was great. She's so sure she really knows what she wants.”
Oliver Milburn - Nat

- Ann Bishop Mullany: I want to know why you are the way you are!
- Graham Dalton: And I'm telling you it's not any one thing that I can point to and say "That's why!" It doesn't work that way with people who have problems, Ann, it's not that neat, it's not hat tidy! It's not a series of little boxes that you can line up and count. Things just... (continue)(continue reading)
Andie MacDowell - Ann Bishop Mullany
James Spader - Graham Dalton

“When you're an adult, you have to kind of know who you are.”
Elijah Wood - Wren

“All you ever need is inside you. Just don't be afraid to look.”

Olivia Williams - Mam Ward

“That's the toughest opponent you're ever going to have to face.”

Sylvester Stallone - Rocky Balboa

“The whole purpose of places like Starbucks is for people with no decision-making ability whatsoever to make six decisions just to buy one cup of coffee. Short, tall, light, dark, caf, decaf, low-fat, non-fat, etc. So people who don't know what the hell they're doing or who on earth they are can, for only $2.95, get not just a cup of coffee but...” (continue)(continue reading)
Tom Hanks - Joe Fox

“- Miss Viola: My dears, it's not something I can actually teach you. Does anybody know why? Anyone? Anyone?
- Baby Gloria: You can't teach it to us, ma'am, because we have to find out heart songs all by ourselves.
- Miss Viola: Well done, you.
- Baby Gloria: It's the voice you hear inside, who you truly are.”
Magda Szubanski - Miss Viola
Alyssa Shafer - Baby Gloria

“You have to get lost before you find yourself.”
Cara Delevingne - Margo

“Knowing where you're from, that's half of knowing who you are.”

Garrett Hedlund - Hook

“- Jewel: Is there anything else I need to know?
- Blu: Yes. I can't fly, I pick my beak, and once in a while I pee in the birdbath! Happy?!”
Anne Hathaway - Jewel
Jesse Eisenberg - Blu

“I know I'm funny. I know everything about myself. That's why I can't do therapy.”
Greta Gerwig - Brooke

“What else don't I know about myself? Maybe you can do something, even something horrible and not know you did it.”

Daniel Radcliffe - Harry Potter

“We are what we are.”
Dan Green - Mewtwo

“My armor was never a distraction or a hobby, it was a cocoon, and now I'm a changed man. You can take away my house, all my tricks and toys, but one thing you can't take away, I am Iron Man.”
Robert Downey Jr. - Tony Stark

“I don't eat anything so I can look good on the outside, but on the inside, there's nothing.”
Uma Thurman - Noelle

“I still haven't made a film that defines who I am.”
Jennifer Tilly

“I'm learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company.”
Zoe Saldana

“Every actor is called upon to understand the human psyche, to know themselves, to continue to grow personally, if they expect to be able to portray characters that are believable.”
Marianne Muellerleile

“I think part of maturity is knowing who you are.”
Rob Lowe

“If you go in and audition for roles rather than just be offered them, then you kind of get a chance to kind of discover that you can do something that you didn't think you could do.”
Peter Sarsgaard

“Women are responsible for creating their own roles.”
Kathleen Turner

“I would be a fool to deny my own abilities.”
Julie Andrews

“I still think of myself as a stage actor.”
Tony Shalhoub

“I'm impossible to direct.”
Tony Shalhoub