Thomas F. Wilson Quotes

I've played myself before this ["Brent Spiner"] - and I've played myself since, for that matter - and playing yourself one of the most difficult characters you can play, 'cause God knows most of us don't know who that is.

I have no issues with my identity.

I could easily not be the person that people know.

I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

There are a lot of people who don't know me and what I am all about.

Nobody else can tell you what you are.

My personal life is a big part of who my character is.

I'm reminded of who I am, who I was, and who I'm supposed to be.

Don't get confused with what people say you are, with who you know you are.

...fact was she knew more about them than she knew about herself, having never had the map to discover what she was like. Could she sing? (Was it nice to hear when she did?) Was she pretty? Was she a good friend? Could she have been a loving mother? A faithful wife? Have I got a sister and does she favor me? If my mother knew me would she like me? (140)

One of the other reasons for writing this book [My Beloved World] was to hold on to the person you first met. More of the world knows about me now and follows me in a way that never happened before. I didn't want me, the inside of me, to change. Because I liked Sonia, the Sonia who has been. So another reason for writing the book was to hold on to that - whatever the best in Sonia was, to try to capture it.

After all, what is your personal identity? It is what you really are, your real self. None of us is what he thinks he is, or what other people think he is, still less what his passport says he is. And it is fortunate for most of us that we are mistaken. We do not generally know what is good for us. That is because, in St. Bernard's language, our true personality has been concealed under the 'disguise' of a false self, the ego, whom we tend to worship in place of God.

Just remember, everything you are is.

Maybe I’d like to be defined by what I am.

Reputation is what others perceive you as being, and their opinion may be right or wrong. Character, however, is what you really are, and nobody truly knows that but you. But you are what matters most.

The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.

Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror.

It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.

I can't stand outside myself and be anybody else.

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

For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell.

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

I don't know if there is a personal identity. We all imagine that we are absolute individuals. But when we begin to look for where this individuality resides, it's very difficult to find.

I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.

You grow and you change, or at least you think you do, but you're kind of the same.