Lily James Quotes

Too great a sense of identity makes a man feel he can do no wrong. And too little does the same.

I'm worried about looking like a bad person when, in fact, I try to be a good person. I don't like the public image that I've been dressed with and it worries me.

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.

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.

How you define yourself is a major issue for young people and adults alike.

If I don't measure up as an American writer, at least leave me to my delusion.

I always wanted to be more validated as a human being, as a person, than I was as a player. I think that was a really hard balance for me.

There are always moments when I think about leaving skating, but when I think about that, I'm not very smart, and I'm not very pretty, and there's nothing else that stands out about me besides my skating.

I always felt like a fraud.

The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.

I think I'm a model in a football player body sometimes.

The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.

I have no issues with my identity.

What I do now defines who I am as a woman and how people see me; they don't see me as a little girl.

I'm not that good looking.

Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it's unbelievable!

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

I didn't think of myself as a tart, but I wouldn't argue with anyone who did.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem, it is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem.

It'd be really nice to wake up looking like, I don't know, Jake Gyllenhaal and think, 'Let's try this on for a day and see how it feels.'

I think that as soon as you think of yourself as a famous person or anything like that, you're objectifying yourself in some weird way.

I don't have the confidence to be a personality.

The actor has a constant problem of personal identity.