James McGreevey Quotes

You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares.

So many people go through life, and they never deal with their own issues, no matter what the issues are - ours happen to be gender identity. But, how many people go through life and just waste an entire life 'cause they'd never deal with themselves to be who they are.

In the last couple of years I've been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to find out, who I am, It's something I think I'll be doing for the rest of my life.

Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.

I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then.

Anybody can get lost in themselves.

All my life, I have taken inventory at intervals. For example, when I became a movie actor and suddenly I had to deal with fame, money and playing so many roles, I lost myself. I said, 'Who am I?' And I wrote my first book to deal with that, 'The Ragman's Son.'

I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn't say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don't know myself at all yet.

Being down makes you think who you are.

I don't know how happy I was when I met Sting. I always had this difficulty of not really knowing who I was.

The world's most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within us. The worst part is, you can't even tell who is who.

You think you can go into all those auditions not knowing who you are? The work came after I found my sense of self - when I wasn't so manic and desperate.

It's easy to forget who you are.

I didn't know that anything was wrong with me until the media got involved in my life.

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.

A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.

My problem was I let myself become known before I knew myself.

I am just like you and everyone else. I am trying to live my life as best I can.

There was a period when I had a hard time reconciling all the different parts of me in a way that I thought would make sense to others.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in denial about who I was, and was trying to be someone who I was not.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself, in fact, confused.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.