Tom Wilkinson Quotes

There's nothing harder than defining oneself.

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.

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?

The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.

Identity for me is something that has to be played with and explored, and not become complacent about or uninterested in.

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

I love changing what I look like because I always feel super strange whenever I do watch something that I'm in.

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

I'm always trying to figure out what my taste is, what my likes and dislikes are.

If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.

To be able to always have a super sense of who I was and my own real identity and be petty and seem informed and always thinking in thoughts would be great.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

Some of us, for better or worse, develop very stable, consistent, and largely predictable machineries of self. But in others, the self machinery is more flexible and more open to unexpected turns.

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

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

I know for myself, and maybe I'm weird or whatever, but the whole thing is about constantly redefining identity.

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

I don't find myself intriguing.

As I learn more about myself, I think people learn more about me as well. It seems to correlate that way. I learn how to represent myself more as it goes on.

People often think that looking in the mirror is about narcissism. Children look at their reflection to see who they are. And they want to see what they can do with it, how plastic they can be, if they can touch their nose with their tongue, or what it looks like when they cross their eyes.

I'm always thinking about what my identity is.

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

What is your identity, and how do you know who you are if you don't have language?

What someone wears is an expression of oneself. When you're just comfortable with what you're wearing, you don't have new thoughts. I want people to feel something and think about who they are.

I identify with my womanhood before anything else because that's what I deal with when I am alone.