Olympia Dukakis Quotes

I think the whole idea of me was that I wasn't going to be but that I wanted to be, desperately.

It feels weird to say there's more to me than that, like I'm being overdramatic, and a tear rolls down my cheek. But, no - I do like I feel like there's more to me than just baseball.

There's who you think you are and who you want to be, and then who you actually are.

I have always felt like I was just sort of waiting to catch up to the rest of myself.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.

I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately.

One of my problems is to find the self.

Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again.

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.

Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.

Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.

Identity has been such an explosive territory for me... so hard, so painful at times.

Something really intense happened to me during the 'SNL' performance. It felt like the person I was made to be faced the person I'm becoming. It was the first time I felt like I was able to make any sense of ownership of my work.

I've always been fascinated by this idea of who we are versus who we want to be.

What I use when I'm acting comes from what I learn about myself.

It is only through hard work and awareness that we can truly own our identity.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

I think, a lot of my career and my life before I went to Sweden, I felt like I was trying to be someone else.

I'm not even sure who I really am sometimes.

The camera doesn't make you a better person, it doesn't even change the person that you are, it just magnifies who you are.

A man should be resigned to knowing himself a little better each day if he hasn't got the guts to put an end to his sniveling once and for all.

Self improvement is masturbation.

I want to be a better Chris Quinn. I don't want to be a different Chris Quinn.

You're looking at a different me than I'm looking at.