Noah Baumbach Quotes

I've never, ever labeled myself.

Nobody else can tell you what you are.

I've never thought of myself in terms of an identity. I'm always baffled when I encounter someone who gives the impression about being confident about a particular defined identity.

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

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.

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

At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?

It's hard to run away from who you are, and when your taste is formed is a very important thing.

I don't even know what my voice is to this day.

There's nothing harder than defining oneself.

Who am I, really? I prefer to leave that up to the observer, because I will never finish answering that.

There are a lot of people who don't know me and what I am all about.

It's hard for me to label myself or characterize myself.

I couldn't put into a capsule one thing that represents me, I don't think.

I love tennis. But even if I become the greatest of all time, I still don't only want to be defined by tennis. I'm my own person. And I want to be remembered as I really am.

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.

And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.

When you try to talk about yourself, you dont know who you are, or what your like, or what your like to other people. And the moment you do it's a formula for yourself, and then you're imitating yourself, and then nobody likes you and they dont know why.

The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?'

In a way, you kind of get caught up in whatever image of yourself you think is out there.

I can't stand outside myself and be anybody else.

I don't think anybody's quite accurately branded me. I'm not sure I could do it myself.

I've read a lot of different versions of myself - and all of them are true because it's all opinion, and they're as accurate as it can ever be. But I don't think that I've been deft at hiding parts of my personality.

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.