Alexandra Kleeman Quotes

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 even know what my voice is to this day.

I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.

I've always been very conscious of who I am.

You see a person when you look in the mirror that no one sees but you. Other people see a person when they look at you, but you're not that person, either.

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

I couldn't put into a capsule one thing that represents me, I don't think.

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

I've never thought of myself in terms of an identity. I'm always baffled when I encounter someone who gives the impression about being confident about a particular defined identity.

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

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.

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'm so deeply interested in what it feels like to be other people that I get to operate under the illusion when I'm writing fiction that I'm not really revealing that much about myself. But, of course, I am, and I know that I am. And yet there's this sort of membrane that I get to work behind as I write my fiction, and I love it.

I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.

I have always felt that I am the sum total of my parts.

Defining yourself by your taste is easier than defining yourself by any genuine stance on something.

Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.

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

I describe myself as a human being.

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

I'm not proud to be me, I'm not excited to be me, but I find that I am me, and like most other individuals, I send out little signals; I tell everyone else how everything looks from where I am.

I don't think I'm tangible to myself.

It's important that people understand who I am and where I come from and not just have it shaped by purely political discourse.

I can't turn off the way I think, and that's essentially who I am, who anybody is.

I've never, ever labeled myself.