Justin Trudeau Quotes

There are a lot of people who don't know me and what I am all about.

The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?'

I've read a lot of different versions of myself - and all of them are true because it's all opinion, and they're as accurate as it can ever be. But I don't think that I've been deft at hiding parts of my personality.

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 like people to understand that I do have some personality.

Most of what we say about ourselves is a wonderful piece of storytelling.

I don't leave the house without thinking of how to represent myself.

My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.

I don't even know what my voice is to this day.

I know very well the difference between my image and who I am.

I couldn't put into a capsule one thing that represents me, I don't think.

I don't really know what feeling Japanese or Haitian or American is supposed to feel like. I just feel like me.

I know what my identity is.

I've never thought of myself in terms of an identity. I'm always baffled when I encounter someone who gives the impression about being confident about a particular defined identity.

As we grow up, we're constantly defining ourselves. In my case: Caucasian, male, born in Iowa, live in Boston, Zen Buddhist, good at learning languages. With countless labels, I build up this creation I call my self.

'I' is the word everyone uses to refer to themselves. On the one hand, it points to a specific person, but it's also this blank space that you can insert yourself into; it's a chute into empathy.

I see myself as anybody, as everybody; I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture of who I am.

And my identity...I never really wondered about it because, unfortunately, I sounded like myself. People be saying I sound like Miles or Clifford Brown.

We have to really educate ourselves in a way about who we are, what our real identity is.

Everyone is insecure. I think, really, it comes from, like, a desire to want to be in control of how you're represented.

Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.

I'm very proud of my roots, and I would never try not to be who I am.

I want people to get a better sense of who I am, whether they've seen every video or zero videos.

I must be very clear in one thing... Being a pageant girl is not who I am or what defines me.

I think if you watch a lot of what I do, you're going to ultimately walk away seeing me. I can't hide - that impression is a personal impression people have of me.