Daniel Tammet Quotes

I look at that person and I'm like, That's not Kelli White. That's not who I am, who I started out to be.

I know what my identity is.

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

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

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.

I think everyone is trying to figure out who they are and their own thing.

Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

I couldn't imagine living my life with another name.

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've never thought of myself as just an actor.

I've always been fascinated by this idea of who we are versus who we want to be.

Some people want to define themselves, and they should, as it's part of their identity. For me personally, I've never really had a label for myself.

Nobody else can tell you what you are.

I might not ever fully know who I am, but I also believe that I could be whoever I want, whenever I want.

My self encompasses a lot of different things.

Everything has changed for me since I've changed my name. It's one thing to be called Prince but it's better to actually be one. I have such a reverence for life.

In order for you to be yourself, you have to be somebody first.

A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.

We rigidify our self-image to portray a certain identity to the world, which is one of the key impediments to authenticity.

Every act is an act of self definition.

I know who I am. I don't see myself as this whoever they see me as.

I once was the walrus, now I'm John.

I've come to believe that whoever I am didn't start on December 14, 1946, and isn't going to end on whatever that mysterious date is in the future.