Suzanne Collins Quotes

There are some things about myself I can’t explain to anyone. There are some things I don’t understand at all. I can’t tell what I think about things or what I’m after. I don’t know what my strengths are or what I’m supposed to do about them. But if I start thinking about these things in too much detail the whole thing gets scary. And if I get scared I can only think about myself. I become really self-centered, and without meaning to, I hurt people. So I’m not such a wonderful human being.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

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.

Aladdin is a good soul. He is very selfless and usually does things for other people, but as he falls in love, he loses himself a little bit and starts to become someone that he is not. But he is a person with good intentions and has good people surrounding him who lead him back to where he is supposed to be.

It's a lot harder to write a story that's compelling about identity and sense of self without some villain in the room.

How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!

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.

Fearing not that I'd become my enemy In the instant that I preach

He who trades his identity for money will one day wind up with neither.

I'm going to pull myself together for a while and think-try to determine what character of a woman I am; for, candidly, I don't know. By all the codes which I am acquainted with, I am a devilishly wicked specimen of the sex. But some way I can't convince myself that I am. I must think about it.

I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.

If the Loki in 'Thor' was about a spiritual confusion - 'Who am I? How do I belong in this world?' - the Loki in 'Avengers' is, 'I know exactly who I am, and I'm going to make this world belong to me.'

Being an actor sometimes requires that you ask yourself questions you'd rather not know the answers to.

I've had times in my life when I really haven't been able to figure myself out.

What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?

There are times I can't even figure myself out.

We have our insides and our outsides, and I find the struggles between the two, as well as the occasions of harmony between the two, fascinating.

I can't wish I weren't something that I am.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

I tend to deal with characters who are sort of at that same point of wrestling with, 'Who am I going to be as an adult? What do I believe? How am I defining myself in the context of my culture and my peer groups, my family?'

I know who Jack Whittaker is. And some days I don't like who I am.

I don't play many characters like myself. Oh I don't know what I am!

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.

I just gravitate to movies where the mystery is the character himself. Any time you see a trailer of something where somebody is questioning 'Who am I?' I'm hooked.

Identity is part of drama to me. Who am I, why am I behaving this way, and am I aware of it?