Chris Bohjalian Quotes

I know what my identity is.

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.

The Self has turned out to mean so many things, to mean them so ambiguously, and to be so wavering in its application, that we do not feel encouraged.

Wait a minute man, who do you think I am? He answered, Mr. Springsteen.

It's not a little thing to lose your identification and who you believe yourself to be.

We live our lives based on who we think we are.

Maybe I’d like to be defined by what I am.

I have no personality, or I have three, depending on how you look at it.

I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let's face it, we don't often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we.

I don't really know what my personality is anyway. I don't really have one.

I think in some ways we have allowed other people to set the agenda. Other people to define who we are.

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

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

When I was younger, my father told me not to pigeonhole the way that I perceive myself.

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

You think you know who you are, and then other people have these other ideas.

Defining yourself by your taste is easier than defining yourself by any genuine stance on something.

I didn't want to have to deal with having any moniker or separation between the self that I see and know myself as.

There is no self-portrait of me.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

How you define yourself is a major issue for young people and adults alike.

The idea that there is a sharp boundary between our true inner selves and the outside world is pervasive but highly questionable. The boundaries of the self might well be more porous than we ordinarily think.

Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.

There's no such thing as identity: it's something we have to believe in to make life more tolerable.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.