Who I Am Quotes - Page 16

You've got to understand that in Bollywood, every actor is an instrument, and yet a human being. They come to the set with a set agenda, believing, 'This is who I am, this is what I want, and no, I am not going to become that character you want me to.'

I'm not out here on the front lines trying to create clones, or consumers, or worshippers of who I am, and what I do. I'm trying to nurture the idea that you should do your own thing, which is really powerful.

My public image is absolutely not a fair reflection of who I am.

If you see me as just the princess then you misunderstand who I am and what I have been through.

Every day starts, my eyes open and I reload the program of misery. I open my eyes, remember who I am, what I'm like, and I just go, 'Ugh'.

My fans are who I am. You give meaning to my life. You will never know the connection I feel to you.

My friends and family and team know who I am, and they have my back. So I don't let someone who doesn't know me affect me.

I speak my mind. If it offends some people, well, there's not much I can do about that. But I'm going to be honest. I'm going to continue to speak my mind, and that's who I am.

I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness, because who I am today I am completely content to be.

I don't really like directing. I've had a good relationship with actors, but I can do what I do and back off. I don't want that much romancing. I don't want them to call me up at two in the morning saying, 'I don't know who I am.

I don't know who I am. Or maybe I do know who I am and I just don't want to be her anymore.

My responsibility is simply being who I am and not buying into any projection as real. No projection is finally real, but projection does play a very important role.

At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.

I'm just being who I am and expressing myself as everyone else does.

This is the thing, I'm not fazed by what people say about me because I know who I am and what I've been through.

How can I know who I am when I am all this?

Who I am finally, if not the long silent part of someone, the secret and nocturnal part which has never betrayed itself in public by any thought, word, or deed, but communicates through subterranean depths of the imaginary with dreams as old as the world itself?

No one can make me work harder than I do, so I'm generally not interested in who I am competing with.

I guess because people are more aware of who I am, they're going to wonder about my personal life.

For most of my life, I’ve felt that there must be more to our existence than meets the eye. This is who I am, and you can’t expect me to be someone I’m not.

I have never seen myself as leading for others. What's important is that I know who I am. Not completely. But I'm coming around third base.

I have my faith and my principles, and this is what makes me who I am. If the person loves me, he'll love my God too.

How much more can you give? Other than, literally, open-heart surgery onstage? Not much. But the only cure you have right now is the honesty of going, this is who you are. I know who I am.

I want to keep audiences off balance, so they don't know who I am or how to take me. If I duck and weave, as Frank Bruno might say, I'll have a longer shelf life.

I think hip hop allows us to talk about everything, and Africa is what I choose to talk about now. If people are not talking about Africa, that's them, that's cool, there's nothing wrong with that. But this is who I am, this is what I have to say, this is what I have to offer.