Andrea Seigel Quotes

And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.

I think I am the same kind of person I would have been if I wasn't an actor. I am not a robot.

We're all impostors to ourselves. By that I mean that we know instinctively, intimately, the difference between whom we are inside and who we appear to be to others. Most of the time - when we aren't flat lying about something or playing a particularly stylized role in some heightened dramatic situation - this difference between the internal and the external is modest and manageable.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

I intend to be me. Whatever that is.

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.

A lot of people hurl themselves into relationships to lose themselves, but I think the best relationships help us to be more ourselves, to bring forth our best selves.

In my job, I am portrayed as a misfit, a grandiose high fashion lady or an unearthly creature. At home, it's important I can look in the mirror, strip away the disguise and be comfortable with who stares back.

Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

I think it hurt my performance because I stopped being me. That won't ever happen again.

I'm undeniably myself, and I think realizing that is the way to live life.

There's who you think you are and who you want to be, and then who you actually are.

I don't think you can do something wrong with your identity if you're living in your authenticity.

There is your persona and then there's the real you. I was living inside my persona too much.

I think I spent a lot of my mid-twenties thinking it was a problem of my onstage persona. But, actually, it was my actual personality. I was still working out what kind of person I was.

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.

One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back.

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.

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

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

One of the other reasons for writing this book [My Beloved World] was to hold on to the person you first met. More of the world knows about me now and follows me in a way that never happened before. I didn't want me, the inside of me, to change. Because I liked Sonia, the Sonia who has been. So another reason for writing the book was to hold on to that - whatever the best in Sonia was, to try to capture it.

That's the way I feel, at least: like there's a real me and a reflection of me, and I have no way of telling which is which.