Antonio Tabucchi Quotes

I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then.

Every time you come to the limit of what is demanded of you, you are faced with the same problem-to be yourself!

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

Ironically, it was because I was raised as a Muslim in the South, that I realised the value in being true to who you really are. I've just got so many things going on inside. I don't know how to resolve all of them other than being true to who I am.

So many people go through life, and they never deal with their own issues, no matter what the issues are - ours happen to be gender identity. But, how many people go through life and just waste an entire life 'cause they'd never deal with themselves to be who they are.

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

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

I know who I am by now. And I am my own brand.

Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.

I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.

I suppose one should have an integrated personality, but I've never really seen the point.

I think everyone is trying to figure out who they are and their own thing.

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.

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

I've never, ever labeled myself.

When you have a lot of people telling you what you are and perceiving you in a certain way, it's difficult to find your own identity.

I just felt that I was going to fall apart if I didn't learn to be myself.

Everyone always said, 'When you're 10, you'll want to be Elizabeth, or when you're in college.' And every time, I was was just like, 'No, I'm Beanie. That's who I am.' So I love my name because I think it really suits me.

I know what my identity is.

I cannot be anyone else but Memphis. I tried that, and I was not happy with myself.

To force something that was not organic to who I am was tough on me, and so I can relate to all those girls and guys out there going through the same thing.

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.

The greatest fear people have is that of being themselves.

Life may more than once call upon you to prove Who You Are by demonstrating an aspect of Who You Are Not.

I don't know who I am or who I was. I know it less than ever. I do and I don't identify myself with myself. Everything is totally contradictory, but maybe I have remained exactly as I was as a small boy of twelve.