Robbie Robertson Quotes

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell.

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

I am very conscious of who I am as an artist and as an inspirational person.

I could easily not be the person that people know.

I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.

I've always been very conscious of who I am.

There are different sides to me; I wanted to make a personal film but I would not want to make any film that does not reflect me in it. At least, not right now. I'm just too young to be doing that.

I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

I am not an insecure person. For me, insecurity comes when something I do does not come across the way I thought it would. It would come if I had nothing more to say as an actor. I have a long way to go!

When you're younger, you want to project an image of yourself through your work, but now, I just want to make something honest.

I don't feel I have to be Jackson Browne. Still, I like to say something.

It feels weird to say there's more to me than that, like I'm being overdramatic, and a tear rolls down my cheek. But, no - I do like I feel like there's more to me than just baseball.

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

The creative process has been a little bit of an experience, really - to try and make that work for me. The only way I know how to do that is just to remain genuine, humble, and true to everything I know already in my life.

Day after day I look in the mirror and I still see something

If you spend your life walking through somebody else's museum, you never find out whether you're Rembrandt or not.

Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

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.

Did I express my personality? I think that's quite unimportant because it's not people's selves but what they have to say about life that's important.

I've got an age that I do think of myself.

Singing other people's material was perceived, I think, as a weakness of my persona. The effect, though, was to make me dig my heels in and try even harder to combine the two.