Humphrey Bogart Quotes

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.

There's something safe about playing a character, but then it's like, 'Who am I underneath it all?'

All my work is not personal - I've been trying to get away from that into the true self underneath all the tastes and things we think make up a self.

And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact what we really are.

Don't get confused with what people say you are, with who you know you are.

Only you know who you were born to be and you need to be free to be that person.

I can't stand outside myself and be anybody else.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

Well, I think most people understand that there's a big difference between who you are and who, you know, you play.

Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

I believe in God, but even if you don't, you can believe in a self, the person who is innately who you are. Once you fully become that person, then everything you do will be blessed.

I never really did abandon my true self. It's not like I invented this imaginary person and started to be her.

When you act, you're always playing a version of yourself. You can't bring more to the role than what you are.

I am definitely the same person I was when I finished 'The Impossible.' That's one of the things I really strive to keep.

It's hard to live in a blind and aimless - or dishonest, rather - narrative when somebody in your family is going farther toward - or at least think they are and say they are - their true self.

There's got to be a voice deep within you that is untouched by definitions. And it is there that you become divinely who you are.

As I grow older, I feel like my authentic self has been able to shine through more and more, and people can see that.

I'm not what I make.

I think I spent a lot of my mid-twenties thinking it was a problem of my onstage persona. But, actually, it was my actual personality. I was still working out what kind of person I was.

And the question is, which one is really "you.

Somebody once said that you can never act and be another person; you're only acting facets of yourself. I think there's a lot of truth in that.

I feel like I never get to play any version of myself or get to be a normal person.

Anyone who knows who God made them to be will never try to be someone else.