Reggie Watts Quotes

You yourselves are the Being you are seeking.

What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

Nobody else can tell you what you are.

These are the only two situations possible, and you are in the sad situation. Everybody may know about you - who you are - but you yourself are completely oblivious of your transcendence, of your real nature, of your authentic being. This is the only sadness in life. You can find many excuses, but the real sadness is this: you don't know who you are. How can a person be happy not knowing who he is, not knowing from where he comes, not knowing where he is going? A thousand and one problems arise because of this basic self-ignorance.

And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact what we really are.

We can run away from where we are, but not from what we are.

Don't get confused with what people say you are, with who you know you are.

I've played myself before this ["Brent Spiner"] - and I've played myself since, for that matter - and playing yourself one of the most difficult characters you can play, 'cause God knows most of us don't know who that is.

I'm not always what I think I am, but I am what I think.

After all, what is your personal identity? It is what you really are, your real self. None of us is what he thinks he is, or what other people think he is, still less what his passport says he is. And it is fortunate for most of us that we are mistaken. We do not generally know what is good for us. That is because, in St. Bernard's language, our true personality has been concealed under the 'disguise' of a false self, the ego, whom we tend to worship in place of God.

You are what you is, you is what you am, you ain't what you're not. So see what you got?

Others can give you a name or a number, but they can never tell you who you really are. That is something you yourself can only discover from within.

The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

I have no issues with my identity.

I can't stand outside myself and be anybody else.

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

What's in your soul is in your soul.

Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.

Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.

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

I've never, ever labeled myself.