Paul Horgan Quotes

I've never, ever labeled myself.

There's nothing harder than defining oneself.

Who am I, really? I prefer to leave that up to the observer, because I will never finish answering that.

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

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 don't even know who I am. All I know is that I am the sibling, daughter, sister, the friend of somebody, and I need to know who I am outside of that.

I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing as being what he was.

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.

I do not think I reinvent myself. Wearing my hair differently or changing my style of dress is playing dress-up. I don't take it too seriously.

People want to know more about me. They want to know who I am.

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.

I don't even know what my voice is to this day.

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'm always thinking about what my identity is.

What is your identity, and how do you know who you are if you don't have language?

I know what my identity is.

Who Am I? Or (Perhaps More Accurately) Who Else Could Be Me?

...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)

The Buddhists say there are 149 ways to God. I'm not looking for God, only for myself, and that is far more complicated. God has had a great deal written about Him; nothing has been written about me. God is bigger, like my mother, easier to find, even in the dark. I could be anywhere, and since I can't describe myself I can't ask for help.

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 think people who struggle to define themselves might never be satisfied because there is no definition. Living with responsibility is important, but I don't really think you have to grow up.

But I am I now; and so many other millions are so irretrievably their own special variety of 'I' that I can hardly bear to think of it. I: how firm a letter; how reassuring the three strokes: one vertical, proud and assertive, and then the two short horizontal lines in quick, smug succession. The pen scratching on the paper…I…I…I…I…I…I.

Before you can give of yourself to others you must know what of yourself you have to give. Every person is special. In all the land there is only one you, possibly two, but seldom more than sixteen.