John Hawkes Quotes

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

The most dangerous thing you can do is know who you are.

First you have to know who you are. That is the most important thing, as if you don't know who you are you will either get swallowed up or you follow some unsuitable trends and just become a nonentity.

It's easy to forget who you are.

You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares.

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

My problem was I let myself become known before I knew myself.

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

I know who I am and what I do.

The real rub is finding that authentic self and it's not something that's going to come to you overnight.

I like when people know who they are, know their limitations and what they want to do. It's the same thing for me.

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

I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.

One of my problems is to find the self.

People want to know more about me. They want to know who I am.

Figure out who you are.

I know the person I am, and I know the person I can be.

Know thyself.

There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge.

I have a pretty good grip on who I am.

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.

The most important thing about a person is that you know who you are and what you want. You should be capable of introspection and evaluate yourself.

I know who I am and what I can do.

I just kind of, like, know who I am. I think that comes from having an incredibly strong sense of purpose for a very long time.

If you don't know yourself, you don't know your nature. If you don't know your nature, you don't know where to exist. By knowing your nature, knowing yourself, you know what to be and how to live. And that only comes from knowledge of self, knowing yourself.