J. Michael Straczynski Quotes

One is made by all the things around one. There are many things that have made one. For a writer to go around looking for things that have made him is asking for trouble. It's like giving a character to yourself. Can't do it. Can't do it. These things are just there. Is that enough?

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

Our lives teach us who we are.

My personal life is a big part of who my character is.

Every decision you make - every decision that you make every second - is not a decision about what to do, it is a decision about who you are. Every act is an act of self-definition.

'I Am Number Four' is a great story about a guy who's trying to find his destiny and figure out who he is and his identity.

I'm always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how they want to be seen. And the older you get, the world keeps telling you different things about yourself. And how people either adjust to those things and let go of adolescent notions. Or they dig in deeper.

I made the character as much of myself as I could.

I'm not interested in nostalgia; I'm interested in who I am.

I don't think one moment in somebody's life is going to define them.

When I was a kid, I thought I was Wonder Woman.

Like, that was weird in 'Hamlet 2,' because I played myself there, fully myself, but then I realized, 'Oh, I'm not playing myself. I'm some weird version of myself.' So as an actress, you're always playing something, I don't even know who I am, how could I become me? I don't know what that is.

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.

I think there's always pieces of yourself that bleed into your character. That's inevitable.

But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them.

I always imagined that magically, at some point, I would settle into this very easy and refined sophistication, but it turns out that who you are at eleven is pretty much who you are at 27, so I don't know how much I've learned over the years.

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

I think that we're all continually searching for who we are, and that's ever-evolving and changing.

As a child, I was always drawn to heroic characters. I decided I wanted to act when I realised that Superman and all those gangsters and Indians were just real people in costume.

In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul.

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

The Lord knows who we really are, what we really think, what we really do, and who we really are becoming.

I'm not sure specifically but there's definitely parts of me in Rikku.

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

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