Madeleine L'Engle Quotes

I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven.

The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.

The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.

At which point should we let go and do what we want to do, and when should we submit to rules? Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

I've got a wonky nose. Is it classical, is it not? That's what's hard work, getting down into the nitty-gritty of who are the human beings behind the front of what they present?

I didn't want to come up with some generic Johnny Bravo type name. I'm not that cool, so I might as well stick with my birth name.

After this whole acting thing is over and done, you eventually have to be human. Some people are never human. It's very weird.

I never really think about what I have to do to stick to my image. I just follow what I like to do. Sometimes it's glamorous, sometimes it's not.

People say, like, 'Are you a regular person?' 'Well, I'm not a robot, if that's what you're asking, I really am a person.'

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that's always existed.

All I really care about is that I'm being honest and I'm real and I'm coming from a real place. There's a part of me that's a total cad and a part of me that's also a family man.

I don't like defining myself. I just am.

I am a person. I am not a soap opera.

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.

Play the role as a human being... human beings are three-dimensional.

It's not a hard job to be yourself.

I'm not trying to be anything other than the way I was born and raised.

Best advice: 'Just be yourself.' Worst advice: 'Just be yourself.'

When I perform, I'm just very much just being myself.

I don't really have a strategy other than to just be myself.

No, as much of an insider as I become, I will still always be an outsider. It's just the essence of me being who I am and doing what I do.

I'm kind of a simple guy. The best way you can describe it is, I'm the same person I was when I was a kid. Everyone's like, 'Of course you are,' but I'm like, 'No, seriously.' I liked 'ThunderCats' when I was a kid; I call myself Thundercat now.

I just try to be who I am.

Existence loves laughter. You may have observed, or not, that man is the only animal in the whole of existence who is capable of laughing. Laughter is the only distinguishing mark that you are not a buffalo, you are not a donkey; you are a human being. Laughter defines your humanity and your evolution. And the greatest laugh is at your own ridiculous things.

The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else.