Sinead Burke Quotes

My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.

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

People know what they see but they don't know what's happening inside. If you want to know who you are and how you feel about yourself, take a look at your environment.

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

I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.

Whenever you see people talking about how real they are or how normal they are, it seems odd to have that self awareness that you could potentially not be normal.

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

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.

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

I have a very healthy dose of scepticism towards what identity is and what personas are, maybe because of my life journey. Identity is something so malleable.

'Nimona' is about identity and if who you are is defined by what you look like. It's not a book about body image at all, but I would be lying if I said that wasn't in there even at the conception of it.

We'll become in our lives whoever the people we love the most say we are.

Everybody perceives me because of my career that I'm a movie star, or I'm this model, but I'm still the same person I was when I was a little girl.

I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.

I suppose it's fair to say that I am interested in the invention of self or selves. We're all born into certain circumstances with particular physical traits, unique developmental experiences, geographical and historical contexts.

There is no self-portrait of me.

Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

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.

Most of what we say about ourselves is a wonderful piece of storytelling.

Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.

There's nothing that reflects me. I'm unreflectable!

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

I don't have a set image. In fact, I would be curious to know how someone slots me.