Sylvie Guillem Quotes

I think your self emerges more clearly over time.

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.

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

I've come to believe that whoever I am didn't start on December 14, 1946, and isn't going to end on whatever that mysterious date is in the future.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

I'm not nearly as important as I used to think I was. It's a wonderful discovery.

My personality doesn't interest me.

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

I think Zippy is part of me, but I'm not Zippy.

Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.

I've read a lot of different versions of myself - and all of them are true because it's all opinion, and they're as accurate as it can ever be. But I don't think that I've been deft at hiding parts of my personality.

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.

Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.

I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.

Anybody can get lost in themselves.

I would like to think that I'm more different from my character than I am.

On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.

I know who I am and what I do.

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

I like when people know who they are, know their limitations and what they want to do. It's the same thing for me.

I don't have dreams. How can I say it? I myself am a dream.

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

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.