Neil Diamond Quotes

A women who does not know herself has no choice other than to live with other people's evaluations.

My problem was I let myself become known before I knew myself.

It took me a while to find myself.

One of my problems is to find the self.

I got married before I found myself. People should find themselves before they get married.

I think there's a lot of pressure on young people to really be the thing that everyone is telling them that they are, opposed to discovering it for themselves.

If you start trying to figure out yourself from the image everyone has of you, you run into a dead end.

I realized that if I were a 23-year-old girl getting married, and I wasn't struggling with it, that would likely mean that something was either massively wrong with me or that my brain is made up of delicately wrapped almonds that serve perfectly as party favors.

I'm always thinking about what my identity is.

In life, we are told to do or be so many different things and expected to fit so many different expectations; I think that's something I always had a hard time with.

I know everything except myself.

I think this is what college is all about: self-examination and dealing with those questions of "Who am I?"

A woman who does not know herself has no choice other than to live with other people’s evaluations. But no one can adapt perfectly to public opinion. And herein lies the source of their destruction.

How can you spend hours every day trying in small ways to figure out who you are, then have a near-stranger give you a sentence of yourself that says it better than you ever could?

You think you can go into all those auditions not knowing who you are? The work came after I found my sense of self - when I wasn't so manic and desperate.

The searching for our selves is the most agonizing, isn't it? - and yet the most stimulating - and one simply cannot escape it.

I didn't know that anything was wrong with me until the media got involved in my life.

I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else who can say this.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.

You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares.

There was a period when I had a hard time reconciling all the different parts of me in a way that I thought would make sense to others.

I wish that I wasn't such an odd mixture. I wish I was serious, but I do love high heels and romantic comedies: being in them and watching them.

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.

When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.'