Judith Butler Quotes

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

One wants to be able to experience being other people, remaking a reality, remaking a life, remaking a certain world.

I kept asking myself if I felt different, if I was different. The answer was always yes. I was no longer nothing… How odd, I thought; it had taken my mother’s death, Father Quinel’s murder, and the desire of others to kill me to claim a life of my own.

Maybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.

There are worlds of possibility inherent in our consciousness that can facilitate our own transformation. What future have you imagined for yourself?

A person often falls very ill in order to become someone else and then returns to health much disappointed.

I look at Homer and The Odyssey and all the disparate adventures this guy goes through, and then he returns home and the question is, is he the same man who left?

I haven't always been the person I am today. I came into loving myself more than anything or anyone else.

That's what I love about acting, you get to find little pieces of yourself in every character you play.

After I play every character, I always walk away and feel a little different. I've experienced something that's not my life, but I've made it my life.

The distance between who you are and who you might be is closing.

Today is the day to break free from the prison of the person you know yourself to be and step into a self you have yet to know. Will it be comfortable? No, but do it anyway.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.

In our own, theatre can be the place where we come together, reaching with and through stories, to who we are and to who we can be.

You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.

I want my words to open a portal through which the reader may leave the self, migrate to some other human sky and return 'disposed' to otherness.

I thought if I went somewhere where I didn't know anybody and they didn't know me I could start all over again.

I've left Bethlehem, and I feel free. I've left the girl I was supposed to be, and some day I'll be born.

What acting offered me was the chance to be many other people.

Each project, I can almost feel like I'm like a different person.

Before, boxing was something that I did. Now, boxing is who I am.

I read for the sensation of becoming another person; I write for the same sensation.

I needed my own territory, and I didn't know how I was going to get it. And so I took my frustrations and plugged them into someone entirely different from me. I wanted to see if I could slip into someone else's skin.