Will Smith Quotes

I got a tattoo saying 'Made in England' above my foot to represent that, that I felt like a doll for so long.

Who are we? Whom do we want to become? How do we perceive ourselves? How do we want to be perceived? These questions of identity are often at the core of our own internal struggles. Resolve them, and you are closer to being free.

I need a little more 'Jersey Shore' in me, I guess. It's just not who I am. It would almost be phony at this point.

I am not stagnating in one kind of an image.

As time has gone by, I have looked more and more like Paul Revere than the alarmist my critics have sought to portray.

I've become obsessed with trying to figure out who I am against situations that make me uncomfortable and not settled, ensuring that that fear of stagnation doesn't allow me to flip into that bubble of privilege.

No, as much of an insider as I become, I will still always be an outsider. It's just the essence of me being who I am and doing what I do.

I used to tell myself that I will always be myself.

When I analyse myself and my reactions or behaviour, there is the act and the actor. There is a division between the two and that creates conflict between "what is" and "what should be".

In this place of light: he dares to live Who stops being a bird, yet beats his wings Against the immense immeasurable emptiness of things.

We strive all the time to give our life its form, but we do so by copying willy-nilly, like a drawing, the features of the person that we are and not of the person we should like to be.

We are not always even what we are most.

I'm trying not to change.

You spend so much of your life basing yourself on what you think other people think of you. Then you realise that maybe one of the purposes of life is not to care.

We are known in a depth of darkness through which we ourselves do not even dare to look. And at the same time, we are seen in a height of a fullness which surpasses our highest vision.

Can we really be whoever we want to be, now that we’ve collected all that we are?

So a part of you is broken when that’s gone. And part of you wants to have that rebellious feeling where you’re just like, forget it — I can do anything I want. I’ve tried it, and I’ve never been that girl. I’m always going to be the girl you want to take home to your parents, not for the night.

When my Mama asks me will I ever change, I tell her yeah... But it's clear I will always be the same until the end of time.

Sometimes you fight what you are, and sometimes you give in to it. And some nights you just don’t want to fight yourself anymore, so you pick someone else to fight.

Some people don't even notice. "Oh, you sound exactly like you did!" And I say, "OK, if that's what you want to believe, that's fine."

I'm not good enough to be a saint and not bad enough to be interesting.

Yes, what is it like? Certainly not like she dreamed. But maybe that's okay. We want what we want. At home, she works herself into a frenzy worrying about what she isn't--and perhaps loses track of just where she is.

I suppose that some days I wake up I have to wake up and be responsible, reliable and down to earth, and some days I don't.

I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.