Ira Sachs Quotes

I have a pretty good grip on who I am.

It's easy to forget who you are.

I really do feel like I know myself, and I'm so happy to be by myself and I'm so happy to be with other people; I just know myself really, really well, and I think that is an amazing thing. I think a lot of people don't know themselves that well.

That's the trouble with wishing you were somebody else. As much as you may want it, you know it'll never happen, at least not in this lifetime.

I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

I know who I am.

I know the person I am, and I know the person I can be.

Know thyself.

The beauty of knowing yourself is nobody else has to.

I know what my identity is.

So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.

You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares.

My problem was I let myself become known before I knew myself.

I understand exactly what I am.

I know who I am and what I do.

I have no doubt who I am.

Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place.

Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?

I developed a sense of self before moving to crazy Hollywood, which was really important.

You can't form a character without being completely comfortable with who you are as a person.

To be able to always have a super sense of who I was and my own real identity and be petty and seem informed and always thinking in thoughts would be great.

My centre of who I thought I was was never very consciously about being beautiful or attractive - I think I'm one of those people who's actually grown into their looks.

There's nothing harder than defining oneself.

I think, for me, it has been important to remain 'Petra from Fulnek.'

When I met people in the past, even before saying hello, I felt like I should explain myself: This isn't who I am!