Kelly Corrigan Quotes

Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.

Yet the definition we have made of ourselves is ourselves. To break out of it, we must make a new self. But how can the self make a new self when the selflessness which it is, is the only substance from which the new self can be made?

I'm always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how they want to be seen. And the older you get, the world keeps telling you different things about yourself. And how people either adjust to those things and let go of adolescent notions. Or they dig in deeper.

I knew Henry Fonda was my father, but I didn't know who I was. They all thought of me as Henry Fonda's son. Unfortunately for them, they never got to know me.

One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.

There's nothing harder than defining oneself.

When you have a lot of people telling you what you are and perceiving you in a certain way, it's difficult to find your own identity.

I know what my identity is.

I look at old pictures of me... and I don't feel like I'm that guy anymore, but then I look at pictures of me now, and I'm not quite sure I'm this guy.

When we're growing up and being teenagers, oftentimes you try so hard to define yourself. You try to create an image of yourself because you don't really know who you are yet. And that can be kind of limiting because you forget that there are actually so many different sides of identity. And it's important to recognize that everyone is completely different.

The years between leaving school and actually becoming an adult are very important years. You make a lot of choices as to the type of life you want to lead and what type of person you want to be. There were so many people who had opinions of me, a lot of them very unflattering, that it was hard to make up my mind about who I was supposed to be.

Your whole idea about yourself is borrowed-- borrowed from those who have no idea of who they are themselves.

Self-acceptance begins in infancy, with the influence of your parents and siblings and other important people.

The first step that leads to our identity in life is usually not 'I know who I am,' but rather 'I know who I am not.'

A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.

If you've got great parents, once you grow up and have to live by yourself, you're going to create some fake self as you get comfortable wherever you are.

When I was teeny tiny, I definitely had a voice that didn't quite match the way I looked at five.

I have no issues with my identity.

What I do now defines who I am as a woman and how people see me; they don't see me as a little girl.

It's been helpful to have so many opportunities to look different so people stop pigeonholing you.

I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.

I don't think anybody's quite accurately branded me. I'm not sure I could do it myself.

When I was younger, my father told me not to pigeonhole the way that I perceive myself.

I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then.

I'm always thinking about identity. And the middle-school years are a time of exploring questions about who you are and who you want to be. For the first time, you see the world in a broader sense.