Alexandra Kleeman Quotes

I've always been very conscious of who I am.

I've come to believe that whoever I am didn't start on December 14, 1946, and isn't going to end on whatever that mysterious date is in the future.

It's easy to forget who you are.

I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.

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

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

I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.

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

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

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

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

People want to know more about me. They want to know who I am.

Without a musket to raise, a barricade to storm, a flag to wave, the question hit me in the face like the cold air: 'Who am I?'

I'm really interested in stories about identity - who I am now versus who I used to be.

You don't wanna walk around and say, 'I'm somebody's niece, I'm somebody's cousin, I'm somebody's daughter. Who are you?' And I think that's always the challenge when you grow up in a well-known family, is ultimately, you have to face yourself in the mirror and say, 'Who are you? What have you done?'

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

It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.

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

I always want to stay focused on who I am, even as I'm discovering who I am.

I didn't want to make cinema so a person forgets himself and has a lot of fun. 'I forget myself, I am a little poor consumer.' I wanted to make a picture where someone who sees it say, 'This is me! This is me!'

I've never, ever labeled myself.

Having long suspected that there was something alive in there, running the place, separate from everything else, absolutely individual and independent, we've celebrated by giving it a real name. My self.

Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.

You see a person when you look in the mirror that no one sees but you. Other people see a person when they look at you, but you're not that person, either.

I don't even know what my voice is to this day.