Kathryn Lasky Quotes

When you look back... on your love affairs... what you really find out is that the only person you really go to bed with is yourself.

Dating and getting attention from boys was something that came later to me.

Different people bring out different aspects of ones personality.

I've kind of stepped into my femininity.

It took me 30 years to figure out who I really am, as a person, and who I want to surround myself with. I was very much the kind of person who would just meld in with whatever group I was near.

The experience of the human, male or female, cannot be completely defined by one startling, surprising, or gigantic life experience.

Some of the reason why we marry the wrong people is that we don't really understand ourselves.

Sometimes, we only get to know someone as one aspect of who they are. Then you start peeling back the layers and understanding more and more about who they are - their vulnerabilities, their fears, their joys, all those other words that equal humanity.

I'm interested in extrovert characters, people who are doing something. But I used to only be able to photograph people I was interested in or attracted to, either psychologically or physically. That all changed when I did the 'Go Sees.'

I don't believe I've ever truly been in love because I don't believe that I've known myself well enough in the past to allow someone to love me.

We cannot and must not get rid of nor deny our characteristics. But we can give them shape and direction.

It's important not to lose who you are in a relationship just because it's nice to cuddle with somebody.

What makes a girl a girl? What makes a guy a guy? Do you have to be what they want you to be? Or do you stop and listen to that voice inside you? I know who I am. I'm Petra West. And I'm a girl. You want me to sleep somewhere else, fine. Whatever. But I'm not going to pretend to be somebody I'm not. I've done enough of that.

I started getting more in tune with who I am by doing roles or even just being in a class and being around people.

Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.

Through the Thou a person becomes I.

When we are honest - that's my saying - if we are honest then we will reveal ourselves. But we do not have to make an effort to be individualistic, different from others.

I think you sort of shed skins as you go along in life. You get into your 40s, and you feel like, 'OK, no more pretending.' You get to just be who you are.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

I'm a woman now.

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

I've realized that Evanescence is who I am.

I don't think Roger Dodger is really about men. I think it is more about relationships and about how you present yourself, not only to the opposite sex, but to yourself. What lies are you going to tell yourself in order to get through the day?

I want to explore more sides of humanity and myself. That's what acting is about.

What we must try to be, of course, is ourselves and wholeheartedly. We must find out what we really are and what we really want.