Susan Olsen Quotes

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.

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

I've always been fascinated by this idea of who we are versus who we want to be.

I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then.

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

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

A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.

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.

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

I look at old pictures of me... and I don't feel like I'm that guy anymore, but then I look at pictures of me now, and I'm not quite sure I'm this guy.

Who are we? Whom do we want to become? How do we perceive ourselves? How do we want to be perceived? These questions of identity are often at the core of our own internal struggles. Resolve them, and you are closer to being free.

I wonder how I seem to them. They must see someone I don't see. Someone capable and strong. Someone I can't be; someone I can be.

The world's most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within us. The worst part is, you can't even tell who is who.

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

I'm always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how they want to be seen. And the older you get, the world keeps telling you different things about yourself. And how people either adjust to those things and let go of adolescent notions. Or they dig in deeper.

My personality doesn't interest me.

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

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

My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.

I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.

You grow and you change, or at least you think you do, but you're kind of the same.

I was never interested in looking at myself in an aesthetic mirror. My intention was always to get away from myself, though I knew perfectly well that I was using myself. Call it a little game between 'I' and 'me.'

On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.

When I watch myself on camera, in any capacity - being interviewed, performing, 20 years ago or yesterday - there's a part of me that really doesn't grasp that it's me.

Supposedly I haven't changed.