Maggie Rogers Quotes

I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.

I think, a lot of my career and my life before I went to Sweden, I felt like I was trying to be someone else.

I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then.

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.

I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

One of my problems is to find the self.

I'm challenging everybody on every side of every divide to be more who they are, to cultivate their capacity for awareness.

Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again.

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

I have done a lot of work internally to find out who I am, what voice Eamonn Walker has and how he wants to put it out there.

I look at that person and I'm like, That's not Kelli White. That's not who I am, who I started out to be.

The characters that I'm typically drawn to are sensitive men who are experiencing some sense of identity crisis or growth in their life that they don't know how to overcome.

It is only through hard work and awareness that we can truly own our identity.

There's who you think you are and who you want to be, and then who you actually are.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

I have always felt like I was just sort of waiting to catch up to the rest of myself.

Who are we? Whom do we want to become? How do we perceive ourselves? How do we want to be perceived? These questions of identity are often at the core of our own internal struggles. Resolve them, and you are closer to being free.

It sounds really cheesy, but as a woman, I feel like I sort of found myself.

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.

We discover that we do not know our role; we look for a mirror; we want to remove our make-up and take off what is false and real. But somewhere a piece of disguise that we forgot still sticks to us. A trace of exaggeration remains in our eyebrows; we do not notice that the corners of our mouth are bent. And so we walk around, a mockery and a mere half: neither having achieved being nor actors.

And in that moment, everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman, yet I was more myself than ever before.

It seems like people are all the time making themselves themselves, but they don't really know it. You can only have true vision when you look behind. A person can slide so fast into being something they never really intended. I wonder if you can truly resurrect your own self.

To get what you want out of life, all you can really do is find out who you are, and do that.

I come out of real life.

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.