Jean Giraud Quotes

Hats have power. Hats can change you into someone else.

I just think that wigs and makeup and costumes completely transform me.

I think I've probably re-invented myself three or four times now, if that's what one calls it.

If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?

I think everybody, or the great majority of human beings, have this aspiration to become other: to live a different identity, at least for a while.

I have often thought of doing a story with someone either as a human being or as a robot who, by a series of stages, changes into the other end of the spectrum. By the story's end, he'd be either totally robotic or totally human, the opposite of what he once was. And possibly... bring him back again.

When I go in and fight, I'm not the same guy who is sitting in front of you, who is meeting the fans or anything like that. It's like a split personality.

While many alternate reality stories ask, 'What might have been?' parallel universe stories literalize the war between good and evil that plays inside each of us every day. It's what makes this type of story so perfect for many fantasy tales: we're all just a coin flip away from being entirely different people.

I have had my eyes opened to a different side to me. I'm a much happier person. There was always this Jekyll and Hyde thing with me.

I love this idea of shape-shifting and changing when you put on clothes, and turn into somebody else.

You cannot be the person they know and the great, glorious person you want to become. Not at the same time.

Maybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.

You can't find that moment when you became somebody else, because everything is in flux. So as it were, the torturous period where you are changing, you are transforming - I think that can be very hard on somebody's system. You don't necessarily realize that is what's happening.

If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we are far out in the darkest sea. One day you look around and nothing is familiar, not even your own face. My name once meant daughter, grandaughter, friend, sister, beloved. Now those words mean only what their letters spell out; Star in the night sky. Truth in the darkness. I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I'd be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.

How much shall I be changed, before I am changed!

I used to be a thing; I'm a person now.

The project you are most resisting carries your greatest growth.

I used to be somebody. Now I’m somebody else.

I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.

This is the story of a boy who used to be a wolf, and a girl who became one

I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.

Don't let who you were talk you out of who you are becoming.

Once you put a mask on, if you allow it to, it can really transform you, and that's what a costume does.

Just because you start out as one thing, it doesn't mean you can't grow into something else.