Before Quote by Norah Vincent

I came alone and I go as a stranger. I do not know who I am, nor what I have been doing.

— Aurangzeb

I would often go on as myself, when I wasn't working. And the first time I went on as myself, two people came up…

— Janet McTeer

Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.

— Daniel Kahneman

For years, copying other people, I tried to know myself. From within, I couldn't decide what to do. Unable to see, I heard my…

— Rumi

I became something I had no name for in solitude and only later discovered the word for what I was and realized there were…

— Anonymous

To create, I destroyed myself; I made myself external to such a degree within myself that within myself I do not exist except in…

— Fernando Pessoa

I disappear from the public eye and get rediscovered quite often.

— Burgess Meredith

After four years of Freudian analysis I realised I had written Solitary Man about myself.

— Neil Diamond

I just pretended I was someone else until that someone else became me.

— Steven Tyler

The years rolled slowly past and I found myself alone. Surrounded by strangers I thought were my friends, I found myself further and further…

— Bob Seger

I think I had a shyness about me, I think I discovered acting as a way to break out of that and as a…

— Michael C. Hall

I began by acting like the person I wanted to be, and eventually I became that person.

— Cary Grant