Sinead Burke Quotes

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.

Maybe I’m a human, but I’m a me-and-Ma as well.

Call me Ildar! Call me Abra-ca-da-bra! My name is my name.

I try not to define myself. Other people are going to do that for you anyway.

My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.

From a young age, I wanted to differentiate myself from my older siblings.

Of course, I can't be like Gary Hooper or anyone else because I'm me.

My state of being is just unique.

I am who I am. I'm unique. I'm my own self.

I think, my entire life, I was a bit different. And I didn't think I was different; I just kinda always stuck out.

A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.

Most people are other people.

Fundamentally, you can never be someone else. You can only be less of who you are.

I love my father, but I have worked to develop a separate and distinct identity in different projects I have worked on.

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

I don't like it when people who are young act like they're 40. That's taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you're so mature or whatever - I don't try to act mature. Some people might say I'm mature for my age, but it's not something I'm trying to do, you know? I'm just me.

It's lame to say that I'm a normal girl, but I think I am.

I started to realize I wasn't like every other boy.

What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.

Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.

I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same direction everybody else's was. And that life was going to be very, very complicated. And that I could either be provocative and declamatory, or shy, retiring and scared.

It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

I'm always trying to figure out what my taste is, what my likes and dislikes are.

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

I think it's important to have your own individual style and sense of self. It's kind of what I do.