Steven Spielberg Quotes

With a fractured sense of self, we come to depend on what people feed back to us - often mediated through social networks - not what we are. We have complex identities but may become less able to act as a subject - confident in what we really are.

If you start trying to figure out yourself from the image everyone has of you, you run into a dead end.

In a way, you kind of get caught up in whatever image of yourself you think is out there.

I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyone's perception of me.

Any description of a person that comes from the outside is very hard to deal with. People don't like being summarised. It's nice to receive a compliment, but it makes me feel a bit uncomfortable.

I always have a hard time describing myself.

We are reduced to asking others what we are. We never dare to ask ourselves.

Patty knew, in her heart, that he was wrong in his impression of her. And the mistake she went to go on to make, the really big life mistake, was to go along with Walter's version of her in spite of knowing that it wasn't right. He seemed so certain of her goodness that eventually he wore her down.

Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it, as well as the incapacity of not seeing his own eyes.

If you can't recognize the man in the mirror, it is time to step back and see when you stopped being yourself.

I want to look at myself the way I do on purpose, because if you aggrandize and try to look at yourself the way a fan does or the way a reviewer does or the way - God bless them, they all got a right to, everybody's got a right to an opinion about it.

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

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

I don't consider myself enigmatic, but I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my public persona.

Am I a 'woman of action'? I don't think of myself that way.

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.

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

The actor has a constant problem of personal identity.

I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.

You think you know who you are, and then other people have these other ideas.

As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.

I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.

I was never my favourite subject.

It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

I don't have a problem with my image; it's other people who do.