Shanice Williams Quotes

'Days Before Rodeo' is just the journey of me finding out who I am.

The ancient human question 'Who am I?' leads inevitably to the equally important question 'Whose am I?' - for there is no self outside of relationship.

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

What you are is a question only you can answer.

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

Every character is asking: 'What's my place? Why am I here? I don't want the answer to be 'Just because.' You find your own purpose. Each finds the reason to be here and how to contribute.

We all need a firm sense of identity.

I want to challenge people to find out who they are.

You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

People want to know more about me. They want to know who I am.

Figure out who you are.

I'm really interested in stories about identity - who I am now versus who I used to be.

I always want to stay focused on who I am, even as I'm discovering 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.

It took me 30 years to figure out who I really am, as a person, and who I want to surround myself with. I was very much the kind of person who would just meld in with whatever group I was near.

Life, is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.

Our lives teach us who we are.

In order to find yourself, who you really are, you got to be with yourself; you got to hang out with yourself.

I don't even know who I am. All I know is that I am the sibling, daughter, sister, the friend of somebody, and I need to know who I am outside of that.

I think, no matter who you are, at some point in your life you've probably said, 'OK, well, who am I, and where do I fit in?'

Everybody needs to find their own path and the best way for themselves to connect to this world.

I'm trying to know who I am and be honest about it.

'Shortcomings' was me figuring out who I am.

You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.