Kathy Bates Quotes

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

The gender is irrelevant; the identity is the one you should try and create for yourself by yourself, and the narrative of your own life becomes your own book.

I never let track define me. That's something that's really important to me.

Don't let anyone try to tell you who you are. Define yourself.

My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else's. That's my journey.

One creates oneself.

I think I've claimed the right to be any version of me that I want to be.

I am my own person with my own experiences, personality, and definition of success.

I want people to see me as my own person.

I am who I am. I do what I do.

Now that I'm older, I understand that it's up to the individual to decide who they are or what they are.

I have lived life enough to know that I define myself.

...even the richest personality is nothing before he has chosen himself, and on the other hand even what one might call the poorest personality is everything when he has chosen himself; for the great thing is not to be this or that but to be oneself, and this everyone can be if he wills it.

I am the me I choose to be.

Those who fear that we are losing our individualism couldn't be more wrong: Americans have never been more free to create and recreate themselves.

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.

I intend to be me. Whatever that is.

Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

I am definitely an individual.

I don't want to be identified by any one role I do.

I think the theme that I was attracted to in 'Beautiful Creatures' was you claim yourself. In my opinion, I think that's a really valid idea and I'm glad that that's our foundation.

Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form.