Michel Foucault Quotes

I’m not my name. My name is something I wear, like a shirt. It gets worn. I outgrow it, I change it.

I gotta be who I am now. How do you not, right?

I wear my personality on my sleeve, for sure, and my look is constantly changing because so am I.

I'm not going to become a costume version or caricature of myself; I like to morph.

No matter how widely spread out the films are, how different, you still are you.

Hima is Hima only. I haven't changed.

If you keep changing for every person who tells you to, then who's going to be left? Why get the success and be somebody else?

Don't just be yourself. Be all of your selves.

Being yourself is not remaining what you were, or being satisfied with what you are. It is the point of departure and far from the goal.

I'm really just expressing myself in every different stage of my life.

Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self: in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned. This trust in one's nakedness is all that gives one the power to change one's robes.

I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while, and then the funny side of me is going to come out. Slowly, people are going to realize they're seeing a completely honest evolution of human life.

I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.

You have to be someone.

When I first got into the league, I tried to fit in. Now I don't care.

I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.

If you have to change something about you to be in a part, I don't think it's easy to do. You should just pick the part where you can just be yourself.

All that I am is me. So I'm not really a poet or a writer or an actor or an activist; I'm me, and these are things that I do.

I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.

I'm still very much Kate.

You change the world by being yourself.

When we are honest - that's my saying - if we are honest then we will reveal ourselves. But we do not have to make an effort to be individualistic, different from others.

I've tried actively to define myself and redefine myself, and not be pigeonholed.

I don't believe complete assimilation is possible, at least not for anyone who has an active, open mind. Every step, every entry into the flows of existence can be seen as a beginning, a commencement of a brand new way of seeing oneself in the world. This is the case for everyone.

I think I may have to grow up without growing old. I think we're going to have to define differently what I'm going to be. We're going to have to define my growing up differently.