Pete Doherty Quotes

Unfortunately, at the end of the day, when you watch yourself on the screen, you are always you.

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.

You're yourself," Tana said, grinning. "More purely yourself than anyone I know. And if you can't see who that is anymore, then see yourself the way I see you.

If I pretend to myself that I'm different from the way I truly am, I'm going to make choices that won't make me happy.

I don't really see myself that way, as some typical sexy young ingénue. I've never been that way. And, for a while, there was a disconnect between who I am and how I present myself on a public platform. That was because I didn't necessarily feel comfortable sharing that much of myself with other people who I didn't know.

Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life. And don't be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it's their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don't be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.

How you present yourself is nobody's business but your own. The stylists have an opinion. The hair people have an opinion. The fans and the management have opinions. Ultimately, you have to trust that you are the safe-keeper of yourself.

I've never met anyone that is their image.

Everyone is insecure. I think, really, it comes from, like, a desire to want to be in control of how you're represented.

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.

The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself.

The thing that I like about being me is that everybody gets a different feeling from me.

I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.

Some people are more fluid than others at just being themselves and recognizing what's good about themselves.

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.

You don't have to look like George Clooney. You just have to know yourself.

People who don't know me, how will they know what I am really like? They will only see me on the field, only see me in an advertisement. People who know what kind of a guy I am will tell you I'm a very open person.

At some point, the pride has to be a part of the whole day-to-day oeuvre. It's part of who you are and doesn't need to be discussed anymore.

One goes on with the blithe belief that who you really are is transparent to everybody. Then you realise, with some horror, that in fact it's not. So all you can do is keep muddying the waters a bit.

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

I just want people to see that I do my own stuff, that I'm not stupid, and I can make fun of myself.

I don't know, I think people who meet me just get pretty much what I am.

I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.

But people who do not know me are surprised to see me as a real person I guess.