Jean Rostand Quotes

I can't stand outside myself and be anybody else.

But don't forget who you really are. And I'm not talking about your so-called real name. All names are made up by someone else, even the one your parents gave you. You know who you really are. When you're alone at night, looking up at the stars, or maybe lying in your bed in total darkness, you know that nameless person inside you...Your muscles will toughen. So will your heart and soul. That's necessary for survival. But don't lose touch with that person deep inside you, or else you won't really have survived at all.

You always have to stay true to yourself.

Most of us remain strangers to ourselves, hiding who we are, and ask other strangers, hiding who they are, to love us.

One of the other reasons for writing this book [My Beloved World] was to hold on to the person you first met. More of the world knows about me now and follows me in a way that never happened before. I didn't want me, the inside of me, to change. Because I liked Sonia, the Sonia who has been. So another reason for writing the book was to hold on to that - whatever the best in Sonia was, to try to capture it.

That's the way I feel, at least: like there's a real me and a reflection of me, and I have no way of telling which is which.

Act like the person you conceive yourself to be.

If you don't feel fabulous, you have deviated from the path of who-you-really-are.

In photos, I don't know who the real me is - it's all pretend, just pretend. There's not much of myself in my work. If I'm looking in the mirror and I'm working, I'm looking at my make-up and my hair. It's not the same as looking at myself.

Most people are other people.

In relationship with others, it is only you mirrored.

You know it's real when you are who you think you are

Hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.

Want to impress others? Talk about your successes. Want to impact others? Talk about your failures.

She didn't have to be offered anything; it was already hers. She was more herself than anyone else ever was and as soon as I clapped eyes on her I knew I wanted to be myself just as much as she was herself.

What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.

I'm not always what I think I am, but I am what I think.

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful. But it's the intention of the work that's changed. I have fans now. I have a new purpose: to remind them that I am one of them, that we are one another. My consciousness has changed.

After all, what is your personal identity? It is what you really are, your real self. None of us is what he thinks he is, or what other people think he is, still less what his passport says he is. And it is fortunate for most of us that we are mistaken. We do not generally know what is good for us. That is because, in St. Bernard's language, our true personality has been concealed under the 'disguise' of a false self, the ego, whom we tend to worship in place of God.

We are what we are, neither a good or as bad as others paint us. And what we are doesn't change how truly we feel, only how free we are to follow those feelings.

People who know me, know who I am.

Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.