Frankie Boyle Quotes

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.

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.

Before we can realize who we really are, we must become conscious of the fact that the person we think we are, here and now, is at best an impostor and a stranger.

So many people go through life, and they never deal with their own issues, no matter what the issues are - ours happen to be gender identity. But, how many people go through life and just waste an entire life 'cause they'd never deal with themselves to be who they are.

Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.

In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in denial about who I was, and was trying to be someone who I was not.

Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.

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.

That was a real learning element for me, because I realized that the more true you are to yourself, the more you will lose people.

If I'm being forced to do something I don't want to do, my real self comes out. But whether or not I'm aware of it, no matter what happens, I'm always going to have a fake self, and I'm not going to judge my fake self.

All my work is not personal - I've been trying to get away from that into the true self underneath all the tastes and things we think make up a self.

I don't think you can do something wrong with your identity if you're living in your authenticity.

I just want to be seen as what I am - just look beyond TV/social media, and you will see what kind of person I am.

There is your persona and then there's the real you. I was living inside my persona too much.

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.

It's torment to look in the mirror and not recognize the man in the reflection. How amazing would it be to love someone through their honest and ugly moments?! It takes a journey to work off the mask to become authentic and whole.

I think I spent a lot of my mid-twenties thinking it was a problem of my onstage persona. But, actually, it was my actual personality. I was still working out what kind of person I was.

As long as you are trying to be something other than what you actually are, your mind wears itself out. But if you say, 'This is what I am, it is a fact that I am going to investigate and understand,' then you can go beyond.

I am never more myself than in my self-betrayals.

Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we're supposed to be and embracing who we are.

Although our package of skin and bones looks very convincing, it is a mask, an illusion, disguising our true self, which has no limitations.

I don't know who I am. But I do know who I'm not. I have occasionally tried playing people I'm definitely not, and that wasn't a very pleasant experience.

I'm just getting to know myself. I'm no wherwhere near to being concise about it yet. I can't define myself. Wait a minute - I'm angry, I'm funny and I'm trying.

But which was the real me? Let me be perfectly honest: I was a man of many faces. (p.33)

Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face.