Julie Benz Quotes

You'll always end up filling out a character. It might be with aspects of yourself.

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 know what my identity is.

I think Zippy is part of me, but I'm not Zippy.

Like, that was weird in 'Hamlet 2,' because I played myself there, fully myself, but then I realized, 'Oh, I'm not playing myself. I'm some weird version of myself.' So as an actress, you're always playing something, I don't even know who I am, how could I become me? I don't know what that is.

I have always felt that I am the sum total of my parts.

One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

I've done teaching and things like that because if you're acting, you're becoming other human beings, and you need to have time to find who you are as well.

No, I feel like my personality probably influenced the character, more than the character influenced me.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

I feel there's something about becoming a character that helps people understand themselves.

I look at that person and I'm like, That's not Kelli White. That's not who I am, who I started out to be.

There's nothing harder than defining oneself.

I lost myself, and a lot of characters I played, I have latched onto some of their identities just because I was so lacking in anything of my own.

The woman who made those movies, that's not me. She's someone else.

I've never thought of myself as just an actor.

Our lives teach us who we are.

What is your identity, and how do you know who you are if you don't have language?

I don't even know who I am. All I know is that I am the sibling, daughter, sister, the friend of somebody, and I need to know who I am outside of that.

I might not ever fully know who I am, but I also believe that I could be whoever I want, whenever I want.

My self encompasses a lot of different things.

it takes a lot of rehearsal to become yourself.

Did you ever wonder if the person in the picture is the same one you see when you look in the mirror?" - "That's the eternal question, isn't it? Are we born who we are, or do we make ourselves that way?