Linus Roache Quotes

I used to need the character but as I've gotten older I need it less and less - I prefer to play some version of myself. To approach any acting job as me just being me.

I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.

We all need a firm sense of identity.

I don't want to be somebody else.

Yeah, it's nice to look up to people, but the more you try to be somebody else, the less you are of yourself.

Hima is Hima only. I haven't changed.

Identity is made up of lots of different things now. Different colors and patterns stand out at different times. Different instruments in the symphony of being are more distinct than others at different times.

Ronald Reagan was the best Ronald Reagan ever, and Ronald Reagan was a cool guy. You're not Ronald Reagan. You can't run as him; you can't relive his career. You can't just have somebody else's career. You have to be you.

The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations.

You can spend time self-identifying and figuring out what you are on that, but at some point, you just want to be who you are and not walk around telling people.

I think we all have a bunch of different people inside of us, and then for a particular role you bring a certain side of that self of yourself forward to sort of play, but it's always really dimensionalised.

Wait, I'm deciding to be my own individual self. And it looks nothing like what anyone else is doing.

There are so many selves in everybody, and just to explore and exploit one is wrong, dead wrong, for the creative person.

It is trying to be other than one's self that unmans one. Be your own natural self and go ahead.

Through my art I have tried to explain my life and its meaning. I have also intended to help others to clarify their lives.

As an artist, you have the job of working out whatever is given you to work out.

I am increasingly an architect of self. I am free to will and choose. I can, through accepting my individuality... become more of my uniqueness, more of my potentiality.

it takes a lot of rehearsal to become yourself.

You cannot be who and what you are unless you have a lifestyle, both internally and externally, that is designed to support that definition of self.

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

I am still learning - how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.

Do not live someone else's life and someone else's idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.

We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being.

Seeing that I am so busily occupied with myself just now, I want to try to paint my self-portrait in writing.

It's like any other job: there's a method to it and it's really important to get that down. I'm still working on it, I got a lot to learn. It's one thing to make records but it's a whole 'nother capacity to be a star - whatever that is.