Kate Chopin Quotes

I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself.

I don't want to lose myself for someone else.

In my marriages, I'd lost parts of who I was because I was trying to mold myself into what I thought a man wanted me to be.

We finally sat down and asked ourselves how much of our lives we wanted to give everybody. We had just given a little too much, and it started to become a burden.

It's a very big deal to me to remain the same person because I know all of this is going to be gone one day and I'm just going to have myself.

However near and dear to you may be your wife, children, friends, they are not you; they are outside of you.

After all, everybody has secrets and there are some things that nobody knows about you but only you, right?

I don't think even when you find a person, you can be completely honest, ever. There's still pieces of you that you don't give away. I do believe you always need that place where it's just you, your thoughts, no one else's judgment or anything.

I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no interest in writing about my own life or intruding in the privacy of those around me.

If you lose who you are, what do you have?

You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.

I'm willing to look my own nightmare on film, but if it endangers my life, then I'm willing to put my life before movies.

Often we lose our identity trying to please or placate others.

Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself.

I'm naturally guarded because of the way I was brought up. But I understand people are interested in who I am.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

Two halves don't make a whole. Two wholes make a whole. In my relationship, I was giving myself away to make the relationship better, but in actuality, wasn't doing better by doing that. I became less of a man.

I'm still the same person I've always been.

I don't think people change. I think they definitely mature. But I think the essence of what I am today is the same as when I was five years old. It's just maturity. I've become a healthier, fuller expression of that essence.

I think that I, Jack McBrayer, am somewhat of a people pleaser, and I do enjoy being good at my job. But I would never endanger my life with gullibility or naivete.

I'm not doing anything Jack Nicholson turned down. Any part that required a character distanced from myself would have been a reach. But the one thing I've always done well at, and I'm most devoted to, is my children.

I said yes too much. I said yes to certain projects that weren't for me. It was somebody else's vision and somebody else's dream and somebody else's artistic endeavor, but it didn't necessarily fit in my grand scheme.

I'd rather lose all my stuff than lose myself, because I've done that before, and that feels way worse.

I realise that I need to be selfish at times as well as smart in decision-making and just not throw away my wicket.

We get older, and we get more wrinkles, but fundamentally, we stay the same... You have the same fears and doubts and concerns and dreams and passions and all those kinds of things, so I feel like you don't change as much as you think you do.