Christine Baranski Quotes

Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image

We are the same people as we were at three, six, ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so, perhaps, at six or seven, because we were not pretending so much then.

It's important to be self-aware about what people are saying about you, but even more so, be very aware of who you actually are, and to have that be the main priority.

A person never knows their own true face. Everybody thinks that the phoney, posed social mask they wear is their real face.

I have realized that my real self is a greater entity than any possible post or title.

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

Although our package of skin and bones looks very convincing, it is a mask, an illusion, disguising our true self, which has no limitations.

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.

If you lose who you are, what do you have?

I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.

Everybody perceives me because of my career that I'm a movie star, or I'm this model, but I'm still the same person I was when I was a little girl.

You're always just going to be who you are.

The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations.

I'm reminded of who I am, who I was, and who I'm supposed to be.

And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact what we really are.

Try to figure out who you really are and not who you want other people to think you are.

Find your true self. The old question, asked in many ages, "Who am I?" Once you figure out who am I, and you know who am I, then you have that knowledge of self.

I want to show my true self, not how I want to be seen by others.

...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.

No matter where you go, you are what you are playa.

You're yourself," Tana said, grinning. "More purely yourself than anyone I know. And if you can't see who that is anymore, then see yourself the way I see you.

The secret is to have a sense of yourself, your real self, your unique self. And not just once in a while, or once a day, but all through the day, the week and life.

Don't get confused with what people say you are, with who you know you are.

Above all, know that ego isn't personal. It isn't who you are. If you consider the ego to be your personal problem, that's just more ego.

You cannot really be too concerned with what people think of you. You're on your own adventure of growth and discovery. So it's not always good to be who people think you are, especially if you subscribe to it as well ... which is easily done, because then you don't have to figure out who you are, you just ask somebody else.