Barry Mann Quotes

You can't run away from yourself

One can run away from anything but oneself.

You can run for cover, you can run for help. You can run to your lover, but you can't ever run from yourself.

You can't escape from yourself, can you?

I have no issues with my identity.

I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?

Why do you wonder that globetrotting does not help you, seeing that you always take yourself with you? The reason that set you wandering is ever at your heels.

No matter where I run, I meet myself there.

you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

You can't get away from who you are I guess.

I don't think we have a right to enjoy our neuroses; in fact, I believe that we have a duty not to. But we cannot walk away from ourselves. Who else is there to become?

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

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.

Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

Whatever your ethnicity is, in this life you are going to be on a journey to discover who you are and how you feel about yourself.

Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.

Being down makes you think who you are.

I can't just suddenly become 'Little Peace and Love Jair'... I've got to carry on being the same person.

In order to find yourself, who you really are, you got to be with yourself; you got to hang out with yourself.

I think I find a commonality between characters and the different sides of myself.

More people know who I am, but I don't feel any different within myself - I think that's the main thing.

I'm grounded in who I am.

Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.