Natsuo Kirino Quotes

My problem was I let myself become known before I knew myself.

Today, a young person that doesn't know themselves will totally be sold some other situation. Let's do your avatar. You know? And young people are going out, spending what little they have to try to buy themselves when they don't have themselves, or they feel like they don't have themselves. To me, that's like a damn pimp tragedy.

I like when people know exactly, have a good sense of themselves, and know exactly what's good for them, I admire that, but I don't have anywhere near that kind of perspective on my own.

A woman who does not know herself has no choice other than to live with other people’s evaluations. But no one can adapt perfectly to public opinion. And herein lies the source of their destruction.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.

I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.

I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn't say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don't know myself at all yet.

I don't know how happy I was when I met Sting. I always had this difficulty of not really knowing who I was.

I'm not even sure who I really am sometimes.

The most dangerous thing you can do is know who you are.

When you don't know your values or who you are or you start to believe things other people are telling you, you get lost. I was just lost because I didn't know what I meant to music or what music meant to me. Now I just belong solo and I belong by myself.

Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people's opinions who don't know themselves.

You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares.

People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.'

The cardinal rule for any performer is that they should know themselves before they enter the spotlight, and I didn't. I was just Neil and I did what I was supposed to do. I was supposed to get married, so I got married. I was supposed to get a job, so I looked for work.

It took me a while to find myself.

One of my problems is to find the self.

Figure out who you are.

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.

I didn't want to make cinema so a person forgets himself and has a lot of fun. 'I forget myself, I am a little poor consumer.' I wanted to make a picture where someone who sees it say, 'This is me! This is me!'

I've never, ever labeled myself.

A lot of people come to L.A. looking for something. What I came here for, I realize now, is to be okay with myself.

I might not know who I was yesterday or who I'm going to be tomorrow, but I know who I am right now.