Diana Vreeland Quotes

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

I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

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

I am not sultry. I don't know what I am.

I'm not even sure who I really am sometimes.

You can spend time self-identifying and figuring out what you are on that, but at some point, you just want to be who you are and not walk around telling people.

I understand that nobody understands me, but I can't be someone I'm not.

How would I know which one I was?

For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.

I am still so naïve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary girl, maybe?

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

Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.

Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth.

I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.

Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.

It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

My sense of myself is that I was a rather unformed kind of person trying to make myself up out of bits of spit and string.

I don't know what I am. And it's not important.

'Different' is such a good word. For me, ever since I was little, I always felt that something was off. And I just didn't have the resources to - I just didn't know what it was.

It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.

I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn't say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don't know myself at all yet.

Be yourself. I had this three-week period where I wore this straw fedora. I thought it was what chicks wanted. And then it dawned on me that I was trying to be something that I wasn't, so I took the fedora off. So be yourself.

I've never, ever labeled myself.