Raf Simons Quotes

I'm still the same cat I always was.

I rejected the word humorist for a long time because I thought that it meant you had, like, a cardigan sweater with patches on the elbows, but now I'm old and I do. I grew into that word. I think at heart, all this time, I've been a diarist. I'm not ashamed of it.

I don't think a lot of people are like, "I'm just quirky!" Or if they are, it's a stage they're going through as they figure out who they are. I never felt like I was choosing roles that were quirky.

I think I don't view myself as an author. I view myself as a person. I view anything as part of being a person, so I feel okay with "marketing" or other things like that.

We're constantly being told what other people think we are, and that's why it is so important to know yourself.

I knew Henry Fonda was my father, but I didn't know who I was. They all thought of me as Henry Fonda's son. Unfortunately for them, they never got to know me.

Never categorize yourself, society does that to you, don't do it to yourself.

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.

I don't want the iPod to be my defining thing.

I have always felt that I am the sum total of my parts.

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

People say, 'What if your name was Niki Smith?' Well, if Niki Smith lived the life I've lived, it would have great bearing.

I've always been very conscious of who I am.

I happen to be a 64-year-old woman who lives in Manhattan, so on and so forth, but am I the sum total of my sort of bodily coordinates? Well, of course not.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

I don't want everybody to just see the baseball side of me.

For one thing I tend not to see myself in various moulds that people fit me into.

I see that people now recognize me in the street. But it doesn't change me in the depth of my being.

You don't have to look like a warrior in every role.

I love tennis. But even if I become the greatest of all time, I still don't only want to be defined by tennis. I'm my own person. And I want to be remembered as I really am.

I don't even know who I am. All I know is that I am the sibling, daughter, sister, the friend of somebody, and I need to know who I am outside of that.

I want people to understand why I'm not 'P1' or 'P2.'

I'd like to be known as something more than a girl who goes to lunch with her girl friends and goes shopping.

My self encompasses a lot of different things.

People like to define you through what they've seen you do. There are aspects of my personality, I guess, that come through on-screen, but I don't sit around thinking, 'I've been a bumbling suitor all my life.'