Dean Norris Quotes

I am what I want. What I seek to consume, possess, and achieve is a mirror that reflects my lusts and cravings, values and priorities, and moral boundaries or lack thereof.

I intend to be me. Whatever that is.

If you really have your own identity you'll keep on doing what you think is really right for you, and you'll also understand the next step you want to take.

I've never allowed my political life, or my life as a basketball player, to define the totality of my humanity or my personality.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits.

I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.

People in life take on certain stories and say, 'I'm going to be defined by this story and I'm going to live up to every inch of this story.' Sometimes you realize the story isn't fulfilling you and in fact you're not living the life that you're given.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

I like people that define their own values. I am much more interested in somebody who has their own definition of what they value, their own definition of what success is, their own definition of what love is.

I want the subject to be in control. Because they will give me something I couldn't possibly know about them.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

I make me. At 18, I decided I wasn't going to have an unconstructed self ever. I was going to be the composer, the designer, the architect of me. It's been really fun.

I never let track define me. That's something that's really important to me.

What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of person one is.

I think people, for the most part, actually want what they think is best.

I feel at various times in my life that I've been at a point where I had to choose between a death sentence and a life sentence. And I want to live. What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? And the answer is always creativity. The answer is always art.

I want to be defined by my own essence.

My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else's. That's my journey.

Principles are the most important thing to me. One of the things I think my dad taught me was there are people who accept the world they live in and there are people who change the world they live in. I don't accept my circumstances.

I am Roe.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.