Bryant H. McGill Quotes

What you are is a question only you can answer.

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that's always existed.

We can't see ourselves very clearly. This I learned as a songwriter. I'm forever trying to figure out what my own truth is.

I'm trying to know who I am and be honest about it.

I see the ups and downs. I see the mistakes I've made. I see a funny person. I see a serious person. I see a diamond. I see the good times. I see the bad times. And I see knowledge of self. I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

Rather than being taught to ask ourselves who we are, we are schooled to ask others. We are, in effect, trained to listen to others’ versions of ourselves.

I think this is what college is all about: self-examination and dealing with those questions of "Who am I?"

To find out who you are is like putting yourself on a psychiatric couch, but you have nobody to help you. Really it isn't easy. I was talking with my nephew this morning and he gave me one of the best quotes I've heard in years 'Personal style is curiosity about oneself.'

When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

I think that some people like to be someone other than themselves when acting, while others are most themselves. I fall into the second camp. For me, acting is a great exercise in getting to the truth about myself.

To me, the most interesting part of 'True Blood' is that the entire crux of the show is based on identity and finding your true identity.

My personality doesn't interest me.

I'm not interested in nostalgia; I'm interested in who I am.

If you cannot find the truth within yourself, where else do you expect to find it?

I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in.

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

I think a lot of Magnum was me.

I always want to stay focused on who I am, even as I'm discovering who I am.

One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself.

Nobody else can tell you what you are.

All I know is myself and I don't plan on changing that.