Chloe Kohanski Quotes

Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.

You can be debased without relinquishing your identity, just as you can relinquish your identity without being debased.

As I get older and unavoidably change a bit living as a celebrity, I always promise myself not to change.

It's very hard to look in the mirror. We all know this. It's much easier to have illusions about yourself. And in particular, when you think, well, I'm going to believe what I like, but I'll say what the powerful want, you do that over time, and you believe what you say.

What happens at 50, more or less, you lose what you need to create another person, to sustain another person; you keep what you need to sustain yourself. And there's something wonderful about that.

If you say that you're all about a certain something, and look back and see that the choices that you've made don't reflect that, then there's something for you to look at.

I think Zippy is part of me, but I'm not Zippy.

When I was younger, my father told me not to pigeonhole the way that I perceive myself.

There has to be a balance between power and vulnerability. That's something I feel I have in my own life, something I struggle with and - on a good day - like about myself.

You can't please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward.

My actual personality probably lies someplace between the two.

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

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them.

But unfortunately, in my unrelenting drive to get back on that drum stool, the major casualty in all of it was that I really forgot about me.

The thing that surprises me most is, you cannot change who you are.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.

I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself.

One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.

You're looking at a different me than I'm looking at.

I don't think we have a right to enjoy our neuroses; in fact, I believe that we have a duty not to. But we cannot walk away from ourselves. Who else is there to become?

Why am I the way I am? Well, I used to be different.