Dick Cavett Quotes

Figure out who you are.

By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.

I think part of maturity is knowing who you are.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

I didn't want to make cinema so a person forgets himself and has a lot of fun. 'I forget myself, I am a little poor consumer.' I wanted to make a picture where someone who sees it say, 'This is me! This is me!'

The older one gets the more one comes to resemble oneself.

The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.

I always knew that there was something that made me different, and by the time I was in high school, I understood what it was.

I try and put myself in other peoples eyes, as I dont feel I've got anything new to say about myself at 23.

I gotta be who I am now. How do you not, right?

As the years go by, you get to know yourself better and learn what works for you.

I'm trying to know who I am and be honest about it.

'Shortcomings' was me figuring out who I am.

First you have to know who you are. That is the most important thing, as if you don't know who you are you will either get swallowed up or you follow some unsuitable trends and just become a nonentity.

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who 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.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

My personality doesn't interest me.

People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.

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