Antonio Tabucchi Quotes

Man shall find his anchorage in self-recognition.

I don't think I'm boring.

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

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

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

People see us as no better than we are.

Know thyself.

I think life is about growing into yourself and getting to like that person.

Maybe some people look at me and just see a footballer, or a black footballer. But I am much more than this. I tell my best friends all the time, 'If you look at me as a footballer, and not as Little Kouli, and not as your friend, then I have failed in life.'

I'm not what I make.

I would like to be re-considered as a person.

I don't feel like there has ever really been anyone like me, and I'm starting to realize that. Not in a cocky way, but in a very humbling way.

...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.

It's probably unfair to expect the world at large, or even most people, to see us for all we are. It is essential, however, that we see ourselves for all we are.

I wonder how I seem to them. They must see someone I don't see. Someone capable and strong. Someone I can't be; someone I can be.

It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me. Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?

The image is not important.

It's easy to forget who you are.

The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.

Being an actress hasn't made me insecure. I was insecure long before I declared I was an actress.

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

I'm always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how they want to be seen. And the older you get, the world keeps telling you different things about yourself. And how people either adjust to those things and let go of adolescent notions. Or they dig in deeper.

My personality doesn't interest me.

So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.

When I was younger, my father told me not to pigeonhole the way that I perceive myself.