Gayle Forman Quotes

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

Let's all pretend to be someone else, and then perhaps we'll find out who we are.

It's really cool to have the ability to try on being different people and to explore some parts of yourself because you get to know yourself better. You get to know parts of yourself that you haven't met before.

As an actor, you're always playing different people, so you yourself are always kind of going through an identity crisis.

I wake up and play a different person every day. Playing all these different characters and trying to figure out who your true authentic self is at the core of that as you're playing all these different roles, and man, that self-awareness starts to come into effect. And you start to see who you really are.

And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy.

As long as I can wear a wig I can be any character, and in real life I can be myself.

Our deep desires define us, really.

Acting is what I do with who I am.

One wants to be able to experience being other people, remaking a reality, remaking a life, remaking a certain world.

There are so many people we could become, and we leave such a trail of bodies through our teens and twenties that it's hard to tell which one is us. How many versions do we abandon over the years?

Young people, who are still uncertain of their identity, often try on a succession of masks in the hope of finding the one which suits them - the one, in fact, which is not a mask.

We're not trying to be something we aren't; rather, we're reconnecting with who we are.

I am really only myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.

It’s always about, somehow, finding a part of myself that is relevant, and then turning the volume up on that particular part. So, I am all of the characters I've ever played, and I am none of them at the same time.

I think all characters that we play are facets of ourselves.

You would be amazed at who people are once you know yourself.

A writer in someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is.

Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word “water” is a noise that symbolizes a certain liquid without being it, so too the idea of ego symbolizes the role you play, who you are, but it is not the same as your living organism.

Being another character is more interesting than being yourself.

We're actors in our lives, pretendin' to be who we want people to think we are.

Once I became a professional, maybe 19 or 20, I really started to try to figure out who I was, as a woman and as an individual.

I’ve always thought you are what you are and you shouldn’t pretend to be anyone else. But Oliver used to correct me and explain that you are whoever it is you’re pretending to be.

I think people will become more and more aware that we are all more than we seem.

Every character, no matter who you play, at times is pretending to be somebody else. People have a public face and a private face.