Ray Davies Quotes

I suppose one should have an integrated personality, but I've never really seen the point.

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

I always like whatever I did most recently. It's the closest to who I am at the moment.

I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.

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

Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

It feels like as you get a bit older, you've worked out the things that are good for your life apart from with acting.

I don't know about an awful lot of stuff. I'm not educated. I left school when I was 16, with no qualifications. The thing that I do know about is my feelings and what I think of the world and what I think of me.

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

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.

Everybody is constantly putting themselves under a microscope in terms of their productivity and their financial success and this whole idea of 'Picture Me Better,' like picture me, you know, who I'm supposed to be versus, you know, just accepting who we all are.

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

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

I am how I am. I cannot explain it well, but I don't feel the nicest person, on the football pitch or in life, I'm just myself.

Personally, I like to start my day off as a Saint and graduate to my Sinner self!

I wonder how I seem to them. They must see someone I don't see. Someone capable and strong. Someone I can't be; someone I can be.

The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but all-essential field, that the artist has to battle.

I may be a real bad boy, but baby I'm a real good man.

If I didn't do what I do, I wouldn't be as young as I am.

Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.

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

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

But this show reminds me that there are other aspects to me besides the fact that I'm a funny chick.

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play.