Sonya Deville Quotes

Everything about who I am, negative and positive, is what shaped me.

You'll always end up filling out a character. It might be with aspects of yourself.

As I learn more about myself, I think people learn more about me as well. It seems to correlate that way. I learn how to represent myself more as it goes on.

There is Harlan Ellison the human being, who takes a crap a couple of times a day, and who farts, and who eats chicken croquettes, if I can find them. And then there is the writer, this writer-person, who is a much finer person than I. Much more orderly, much more meaningful. Worthier, than I [am].

But this show reminds me that there are other aspects to me besides the fact that I'm a funny chick.

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.

One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

You don't realize how much a part of your character is part of yourself until you are no longer playing that character.

By reshaping or decorating our outer selves, we express our inner sense of self: 'I like that' becomes 'I'm like that.'

Everything that I've done has made me who I am today. You know, it's cliche, but it's true.

I've kept a journal since I was 15. And I feel like it's been crucial to who I've become and trying to maintain stuff, a sense of who I am just for myself and not for other people.

There's nothing harder than defining oneself.

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

I don't need much of a character in my life. I've already got one; my family knows who I am, and I don't have a reason to make an impression on the world around me unless it's in a professional context. Acting is not a personal experience; it's a job.

What is your identity, and how do you know who you are if you don't have language?

Some people want to define themselves, and they should, as it's part of their identity. For me personally, I've never really had a label for myself.

Nobody else can tell you what you are.

I think, personally, it's our flaws that define us to us - or maybe it's just me.

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.

In the beginning of 'Jersey Shore,' for sure, that was the real Mike. That's the Mike that I know, that's the Mike I love. And that's the Mike I strive to be every day.

My identity will always inform my experience and shape my perception. But I am an unremarkable person.

My self encompasses a lot of different things.