Ellen Page Quotes

People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.

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

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

Playing in the National Football League, you're told, you know, where to be, when to be there, what to wear, how to be there. Being able to step away from that, I have an opportunity to look deeper into myself and look for what's real.

I need space to grow and get old and be a human being. I don't want to be trapped in your ingenue bubble. And I don't agree with it either, by the way.

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

I think skating helped me find myself.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.

You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.

The older you get, the more you fight for your own identity and start to live your own life.

It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.

I don't like defining myself. I just am.

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

I try to stay real with my thoughts and the things that I go through in life. I like being free.

When you don't inherit an identity you have to define it on your own.

I invented myself.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

You just get out there and be what you want to be. That's part of evolving and part of staying true to yourself - part of remaining alive in a real authentic, long-term sense creatively: not listening to what other people tell you to be.

I think I've established my own identity here at Brandeis.

I think what my 42 years of life has given me is just how important it is to live your own life.

In school, no one teaches you to look for things that are right for you.

Some people want to define themselves, and they should, as it's part of their identity. For me personally, I've never really had a label for myself.

I think there's always a conflict within me about being comfortable and secure and then being an individual and fighting for what I want to be on an individual basis.