Who I Am famous quotes
05-08-2025
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It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.
-- Adam Baldwin -
We all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don't see on my CV. The stuff that doesn't work out teaches you how to trust your instincts and adapt.
-- Aimee Mullins -
I know who I am. I don't have to brag. I know what I contributed. I know what I did. You think you can do it better? Hey, go right ahead. The stage is yours.
-- Al Lewis -
I have no regrets in my life even the crazy things I've been in. It all made me the I am today and I wouldn't change anything. I'm happy with who I am!
-- Alan Cumming -
Acting is about giving something away, handing yourself over to whatever role you are asked to play. I'm not hiding or escaping or seeking anonymity. I reserve the right not to have a rubber stamp on my forehead saying this is who I am. Because who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.
-- Alan Rickman -
If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.
-- Alan Rickman -
Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.
-- Alan Rickman -
Once I know who I'm not, then I'll know who I am.
-- Alanis Morissette -
And ultimately the people who produce my records, they know that they're here to serve the purpose of me expressing who I am at this period of time and augmenting that or pulling it forward and I love that process.
-- Alanis Morissette -
I never regret anything I do. It's part of who I am now, and I like who I am now.
-- Alanis Morissette -
I'm just singing for the women who think they can't speak out. Can't a man alive mistreat me, 'cause I know who I am.
-- Alberta Hunter -
I don't know who I am or who I was. I know it less than ever. I do and I don't identify myself with myself. Everything is totally contradictory, but maybe I have remained exactly as I was as a small boy of twelve.
-- Alberto Giacometti -
I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I’d be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.
-- Alice Hoffman -
I always want to stay focused on who I am, even as I'm discovering who I am.
-- Alicia Keys -
I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life.
-- Alison Goodman -
People try to start things with me because of who I am, and I know that means I have to stay away. Its definitely racial.
-- Allen Iverson -
I'm a spy, Cam. I was born to do this- to be this. It's in my blood. And I will do it until the day I die. It's who I am... The thing is I don't think you realise is... it's who you are too.
-- Ally Carter -
I want to stay true to who I am by trying to be in the moment.
-- Alyson Hannigan -
My relationship with God is what gives me a moral compass on what decisions to make and that stuff. I'm thankful that I have the people around me that I do, and they remind me each day of who I am and what I stand for.
-- Alyson Stoner -
People have a preconceived notion about who I am and it's interesting. It's like picking who you want to win for the Oscars and not seeing the movie. Before you make a statement about someone, get all the information and see everything before you make a judgment.
-- Amanda Bynes -
I know who I am supposed to be with. Im just waiting until the time is right. I know what i want. I want to be so sure of everything in my life and be so good on my own that someone just comes in to compliment it. I want somebody who is happy. I dont want to meet someone who needs me. I want someone who is good on his own.
-- Amanda Bynes -
I'm okay if people don't know who I am, but if you remember my character that would be great.
-- America Ferrera -
I am living today as someone I had not yet become yesterday and tonight I will borrow only pieces of who I am today to carry with me to tomorrow.
-- Andrea Gibson -
I consider myself a person like everyone else, and I take my time writing my records because I feel like it captures more of who I am. You have a much greater chance of hitting on themes and points...that could play into someone else's life in a larger way.
-- Andrew McMahon -
When you have a tough loss, go through it and agonize. I had one loss that I still want to change, but at the same time I realize it is an important part of who I am.
-- Andrew Shue -
I'm really ultra-affected by things, I feel things deeper, and I cry at the drop of a hat, and offended and sensitive and I'm almost paranoid very easily, and that's who I am.
-- Andy Dick -
I've pretty much been portrayed as every style thing you can be. After Wimbledon you are Andy Everyman, who everybody is rooting for. I think the meat and potatoes of who I am hasn't been covered yet.
-- Andy Roddick -
There's a huge difference between who I am when I make music and who I am the rest of the time.
-- Angel Haze -
What you see is what you get. What you hear is who I am.
-- Angie Stone -
I owe it to my fans to be who I am. There's nothing fake about me.
-- Angie Stone -
I speak without reservation, from what I know and who I am. I do so with the understanding that all people should have the right to offer their voices to the chorus whether the result is harmony or dissonance. The worldsong is a colorless dirge without the differences that distinguish us, and it is that difference which should be celebrated not condemned.
-- Ani DiFranco -
One of the things I was taught in law school is that I'd never be able to think the same again - that being a lawyer is something that's part of who I am as an individual now.
-- Anita Hill -
He’s worth fighting for, but I won’t change who I am for any man. No more than he should alter himself to suit me.
-- Ann Aguirre -
Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
-- Anne Carson -
Who I am finally, if not the long silent part of someone, the secret and nocturnal part which has never betrayed itself in public by any thought, word, or deed, but communicates through subterranean depths of the imaginary with dreams as old as the world itself?
-- Anne Desclos -
I'm really lucky with the people around me. They know me, so they don't confuse the issues, really. They know what a book is and they know who I am and they know the difference between the two.
-- Anne Enright -
Oh, honey, I'm from Oklahoma! This is who I am - middle-class all the way!
-- Annette Bening -
We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of 'how do we find our authentic selves?' And that we all - whether we're actors or not - perform ourselves. As a way of searching. As a way of fumbling around and trying to say, is this my voice? Is this who I am?
-- Annette Bening -
I am who I am and I have the need to be.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
I've been around long enough for people to know who I am and what my contributions are. They know me as more than just an artist. I think they know me as a woman as well.
-- Aretha Franklin -
Someday the world is going to know who I am-just be hearing my first name.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
Now I'm fortunate to have a good band in CA, and play many solo gigs as well. My point is that I stopped playing in bands and played solo for four years, to get back into the groove and pulse of writing and singing and who I am on stage.
-- Arthur Godfrey -
I'm getting my respect as a video director. The fashion industry respects me and knows who I am.
-- ASAP Rocky -
I feel very confident with the way I look. But I felt just as confident the way I looked before. I've always been confident with who I am.
-- Ashlee Simpson -
In Hollywood, there is a lot of pressure to do certain things and getting into drugs, alcohol, or partying a lot is a major one. I stay out of that, because it is a waste of my time. I always remember where I came from and to never change who I am - I stick to my morals, and I do not let anyone pressure me into doing things that I do not want to.
-- Ashley Benson -
For me, my faith is a really big part of my life, and it is important for me to walk it out every day, .. Part of our faith as Christians is the command that we let people see who we are as Christians. I'm doing my part to show who I am and that I'm not ashamed of it.
-- Ashley Young -
I came alone and I go as a stranger. I do not know who I am, nor what I have been doing.
-- Aurangzeb -
Don't like me for who I am? Then you don't like me for who I am. And all you're gonna get is who I am.
-- Avril Lavigne -
I guess I like who I am now. I'd just like to have a little more internal peace. I'm sure everybody would.
-- Axl Rose -
I always like whatever I did most recently. It's the closest to who I am at the moment.
-- Ayumi Hamasaki -
When I walked down the streets, I asked myself, are these my people?, is this my hometown, am I who I am?
-- Azar Nafisi -
I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.
-- Bebe Neuwirth -
You want me to come clean, I will. I'll tell you everything. Who I am and what I've done. Every last detail. I'll dig it all up, but you have to ask. You have to want it. You can see who I was, or you can see who I am now. I'm not good," he said, piercing me with eyes that absorbed all light but reflected none, "but I was worse.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
I don't have to try to be perfect because I know that my fans like me for who I am. They like me because I am weird and kind of funky, but still really calm.
-- Bella Thorne -
Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.
-- Ben Affleck -
I always get self-conscious about what I look like in a film, but less so if I'm a character very far removed from who I am. Then I just worry about the performance, and that's equally an odd experience.
-- Benedict Cumberbatch -
Who I am on stage is very, very different to who I am in real life.
-- Beyonce Knowles -
You can't put your finger on who I am. I can't put my finger on who I am.
-- Beyonce Knowles -
I am who I am. In the end, I feel that what I'm accountable for is doing a good job as a football coach.
-- Bill Belichick -
I am very much a Red Sox fan; I can name you more players than you could possibly imagine. It's just part of who I am.
-- Bill de Blasio -
For a marriage relationship to flourish, there must be intimacy. It takes an enormous amount of courage to say to your spouse, 'This is me. I'm not proud of it - in fact, I'm a little embarrassed by it - but this is who I am.
-- Bill Hybels -
I have nothing but respect for the Lakers. So many of their legends shaped who I am as a person and player.
-- Bill Walton -
The feeling of being at sea has put me in touch with who I am to a greater degree than if I had been on land all these years. So, in a roundabout way, I imagine it does inform my acting.
-- Billy Campbell -
Be tenacious. One thing that has allowed me to have some level of success is that I am fine with cold-calling people. It doesn't scare me to call someone who has no idea who I am and say I'd love to take you to lunch.
-- Blake Mycoskie -
I've done a lot of things and I've been a lot of people, but now I've come to realize who I am
-- Bobby Darin -
I'm one of those people that will walk into a bar, and if I wasn't a comic - because some people know who I am - I would just blend in.
-- Bobby Lee -
A lot of people come up to me all the time and say thank you for helping me be who I am. So my thing wasn't just about sexuality. It was about anyone who felt different; anyone who felt out of place. Being gay was one part of it.
-- Boy George -
All of these lines across my face, tell you the story of who I am. So many stories of where I've been and how I got to where I am.
-- Brandi Carlile -
Don't get me wrong. I want people to know who I am.
-- Breaux Greer -
I still sing because I love the sound of applause, because it's who I am, and because I still can.
-- Brenda Lee -
Music is always a healer. Music has never let me down. I know it’s my religion. There’s the idea that you can’t truly know happiness until you know sadness, so how can you heal yourself unless you’ve hurt yourself? I’m still figuring out who I am, but I know that I’m not who I was.
-- Brendon Urie -
If I were to make a list, I would include the interceptions, the sacks, the really painful losses. Those times when I've been down, when I've been kicked around, I hold on to those. In a way those are the best times I've ever had, because that's when I've found out who I am. And what I want to be.
-- Brett Favre -
I've always like the time before dawn because there's no one around to remind me who I'm supposed to be, so it's easier to remember who I am.
-- Brian Andreas -
I know who I am as a person, as a father, and as a husband.
-- Brian Littrell -
The distance between who i am and who i want to be is separated only by my actions and words.
-- Brian Solis -
I think I will be the most dressed [contestant and have] the most modest outfits for sure because that’s who I am,
-- Bristol Palin -
I know not everyone will like me, but this is who I am so if you don't like it, tough!
-- Britney Spears -
Whereas before I was a young, blonde girl who would do what she was told. I know who I am as a person and I'm getting damn strong.
-- Britney Spears -
I need to make mistakes, just to learn (who i am)
-- Britney Spears -
Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay.
-- Brooke Burke -
I'm saying goodbye to people's perception of me and who I am, I'm not saying goodbye to me, because this has always been me.
-- Bruce Jenner -
I am who I am, I am what I am, I do what I do and I ain't never gonna do it any different. I don't care who likes it and who don't.
-- Buck Owens -
I don't have a problem with recognition ... It's very, very rarely about who I am, it's always, 'I love your work.' ... It's always in relation to my work, which I think is a really lucky thing to have happen as opposed to, 'Oh, you're a famous personality,'
-- C. C. H. Pounder -
Acting is my number one, but dancing will always be a part of who I am and in my heart. I love doing stunts when they are a part of my acting.
-- Caity Lotz -
No, I am who I am. Im not going to change for anybody.
-- Calista Flockhart -
It is his absence that is part of me and has been for years. This is who I am, perhaps who we all are, keepers of the absent and the dead. It is the blessing and burden of being alive.
-- Camilla Gibb -
Joe Calzaghe was using the excuse, no one knows who I am in America. Now everyone knows who I am in America.
-- Carl Froch -
Your mind is a magnet. You don't attract what you need or what you want; you attract who you are. And I love who I am!
-- Carlos Santana -
I think it's sexy when someone makes a statement that says, 'This is who I am. This is what I think is sexy.'
-- Carmen Electra -
I have this firm belief that I am who I am for a reason. If I change something, I'm cheating myself of whatever it is I'm supposed to learn from my body. You know, I'm legally blind. I'm 20/750, since I was in fifth grade. I wear glasses and contacts. But I won't even get LASIK.
-- Carrie Ann Inaba -
How do I tell people who I am? Not being a writer, the only way is to sing songs that reflect my opinions.
-- Cass Elliot -
God made me the way I am and I accept myself. I am who I am and I'm proud of myself.
-- Caster Semenya -
I'm naturally quite lazy, and I actually think I'm lax about my career. None of my work defines who I am.
-- Catherine Tate -
People could see in me who I am now, an Olympic champ, the best in the world.
-- Cathy Freeman -
I would rather be disliked for who I am than to be respected for who I'm not.
-- Cecil Murphey -
I'm my own person, and I want people to know me for who I am.
-- Chanel Iman -
I am comfortable with my body and embrace who I am. I love to work it.
-- Chanel Iman
