Ang Lee Quotes

What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.

We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too.

For me, embracing my own power is about embracing my right to be an individual.

Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.

I'm not just a boy toy. I have feelings and dreams like anybody else.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.

It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

Trying to give an individual a voice has always kind of been my mission in my life. As an actor, I've always seen that was something that needed to be done. You need to find that voice inside of you so that you can stand up and be who you really are.

You blows who you is.

No, when the fight begins within himself, A man's worth something.

Having long suspected that there was something alive in there, running the place, separate from everything else, absolutely individual and independent, we've celebrated by giving it a real name. My self.

One creates oneself.

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

What's really important? That I'm an individual, I guess. I am an individual - a strong one, too. I'm Natalie Cole. I gotta be me.

I think there's always a conflict within me about being comfortable and secure and then being an individual and fighting for what I want to be on an individual basis.

When the work you're doing every single day is so directly about who you are as an individual and who you are as a person, it can be both exhausting and empowering in different moments.

What I want to represent for my daughters is that you can always stay true to yourself and still be successful.

Life may more than once call upon you to prove Who You Are by demonstrating an aspect of Who You Are Not.

Every time you come to the limit of what is demanded of you, you are faced with the same problem-to be yourself!

I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they're growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.

The life you're leading is the sexiest part of you.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

To me, the most interesting part of 'True Blood' is that the entire crux of the show is based on identity and finding your true identity.

Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.