Louis Theroux Quotes

Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.

And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.

I look back at old photographs and videotapes, and I go, Who was I trying to be? Who was I doing this for?

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

I had a series of mini-breakdowns where the public persona - this thing, this face, this person who writes this music... I would walk past that person in the mirror or listen to that person playing guitar and I didn't know who they were.

At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?

I'll be me, but I don't like it.

Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

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.

Real life? Well, I just hope mine isn't investigated. They might find that I don't really exist - that I'm just a hologram.

Obviously the idea of being human is a very human idea.

There's a constant struggle between my ears about who I am and what I mean to the world.

I think my thing is that... I don't know. And that's why I don't wanna sing about 'This is me, this is who I am' because, like, even the question, 'Tell me about yourself' - what are you supposed to say? 'Ooh, I'm a happy girl, but I'm sad, too'? People are so complex.

Who Am I? Or (Perhaps More Accurately) Who Else Could Be Me?

Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?

I can't stand outside myself and be anybody else.

Am I a 'woman of action'? I don't think of myself that way.

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.

I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.

I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am - if that defines a punk, then yes, absolutely.

I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.

Like, that was weird in 'Hamlet 2,' because I played myself there, fully myself, but then I realized, 'Oh, I'm not playing myself. I'm some weird version of myself.' So as an actress, you're always playing something, I don't even know who I am, how could I become me? I don't know what that is.

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

What am I? Do I know? I am a man: quite simply, a 'breather.'

Defining yourself by your taste is easier than defining yourself by any genuine stance on something.