Samuel Beckett Quotes

Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.

I don't know who I am. Or maybe I do know who I am and I just don't want to be her anymore.

This is what I would say to my pupil: 'You have become only your fame and left behind most of who you were. How are you going to deal with that? Will you lose that person forever? Have you become someone else without really knowing it? Do you always have to stay in character for people to like you? Do you know that you are in character?'.

The woman who made those movies, that's not me. She's someone else.

I look at myself but I'm missing. I know myself: it’s not me.

Can you question who you are? And are you comfortable with not knowing?

As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.

I'd like to lose interest in myself.

If there is any human tragedy, there is only one, and it occurs when we forget who we are and remain silent while a stranger takes up residence inside our skin.

I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.

Somehow I wasn't adding up right anymore. My parts weren't summing into myself.

I can't see my reflection in the waters, I can't speak the sounds that show no pain. I can't hear the echo of my footsteps, or can't remember the sound of my own name.

He had come so far from himself that I don't think he knew who he was anymore.

So much must I live for others, that almost I am a stranger to myself.

I have been struggling to find my way back into my body my whole life.

When I was a model, I started with an opinion, but was encouraged to lose it. It began as play-acting, but then I lost sight of myself a bit: so when I did the audition for 'Popworld' and they asked my opinion, I felt like crying with happiness.

I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else who can say this.

So many people go through life, and they never deal with their own issues, no matter what the issues are - ours happen to be gender identity. But, how many people go through life and just waste an entire life 'cause they'd never deal with themselves to be who they are.

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.

I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?

I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then.

I look back at old photographs and videotapes, and I go, Who was I trying to be? Who was I doing this for?

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.