Mary Lynn Rajskub Quotes

I think Zippy is part of me, but I'm not Zippy.

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

I've never, ever labeled myself.

Everybody has their own story - it's who you are. If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am!

I am not sultry. I don't know what I am.

Some people want to define themselves, and they should, as it's part of their identity. For me personally, I've never really had a label for myself.

Nobody else can tell you what you are.

I might not ever fully know who I am, but I also believe that I could be whoever I want, whenever I want.

Seeing that I am so busily occupied with myself just now, I want to try to paint my self-portrait in writing.

The ego is as you think of yourself. You in relation to all the commitments of your life, as you understand them. The self is the whole range of possibilities that you've never even thought of. And you're stuck with you're past when you're stuck with the ego. Because if all you know about yourself is what you found out about yourself, well, that already happened. The self is a whole field of potentialities to come through.

I've played myself before this ["Brent Spiner"] - and I've played myself since, for that matter - and playing yourself one of the most difficult characters you can play, 'cause God knows most of us don't know who that is.

There is Harlan Ellison the human being, who takes a crap a couple of times a day, and who farts, and who eats chicken croquettes, if I can find them. And then there is the writer, this writer-person, who is a much finer person than I. Much more orderly, much more meaningful. Worthier, than I [am].

I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?'

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

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

My personality doesn't interest me.

What you are is a question only you can answer.

Much of the time, we're transfixed by all of the ways we can reflect ourselves into the world. And we can barely find the time to reflect deeply back in on our own selves.

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

I don't cast somebody that I think is like my younger self.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

You'll always end up filling out a character. It might be with aspects of yourself.