“Hanna Marin: You don't know the first thing about me. Caleb Rivers: No, you don't know the first thing about you.”— Tamar Laddy, Hanna Marin, Ashley Benson, imdb.com
“I need you to remind me of who I am so I can come back.”— Robin Veith, Jim Holden, Steven Strait, imdb.com
“Ash: Kelly, what the hell did you do? Kelly: He was a demon. I had to kill him before he killed us! Ash: He's not a demon. He's Pablo! He was my friend! He was your friend too! Kelly: His name wasn't Pablo. It was Reg. Just like my name isn't Kelly, it's Amanda, you whack job!”— Hank Chilton, Kelly Maxwell, Dana DeLorenzo, imdb.com
“Milan: I am not dangerous to you or your friends. She does not know who I am, but she does not know who you are either, right? Tasha: No, she don't know shit. And it's gonna stay that way.”— Jeff Dix, Tasha St. Patrick, Naturi Naughton, imdb.com
“You end up feeding off of people’s responses to present a self that doesn’t feel entirely authentic, or you chafe against the impression your name puts forth, subvert the associated expectations, and feel trapped by a label that doesn’t seem accurate.”— Cari Romm, thecut.com
“Wednesday: This is the only country in the world that wonders what it is. Shadow: You've been to a lot of other countries, have you? Wednesday: No. No, never, just this one. Just that the others know what they are. I mean, no one wonders about the heart of Norway or goes searching for the soul of Mo…”— Maria Melnik, Mr. Wednesday, Ian McShane, imdb.com
“You want help? Fine. Let me tell you a story. 'Once upon a time, a man got fucked.' Now, how is that for a story? 'Cause that's the story of black people in America! Shit, you all don't know you black yet. You think you just people. Let me be the first to tell you that you are all black. The moment…”— Maria Melnik, Mr. Nancy, Orlando Jones, imdb.com
“Nobody wants to be themselves anymore. Internet, social media, goddamn talent shows for assholes… Everybody wants to be somebody else. Nobody is happy just to look at themselves in the mirror, see themselves.”— Steve Lightfoot, Curtis Hoyle, Jason R. Moore, imdb.com
“I have come here to die. I die a Queen, but I would rather die the wife of Culpeper. Life is very beautiful.”— Michael Hirst, Catherine Howard, Tamzin Merchant, imdb.com
“We all make rules for ourselves. It's these rules that help define who we are. So when we break those rules we risk losing ourselves and becoming something unknown.”— Scott Buck, Tim Schlattmann, Dexter Morgan, Michael C. Hall, imdb.com
“You sleep now. Tomorrow we find out who you really are.”— David Farr, Richard Onslow Roper, Hugh Laurie, imdb.com
“Why do bad things always happen to mediocre people who are lying about their identities?”— Megan Amram, Eleanor Shellstrop, Kristen Bell, imdb.com
“Because it was perfect. And that kind of perfection doesn't make me feel weak. It makes me feel strong. I looked at myself in the mirror and I finally recognized that person I once knew so well. That person who went out all the time, sometimes just for fun. And, now that I've seen that person again,…”— Mark Fish, Shonda Rhimes, Huck, Guillermo Diaz, imdb.com
“Sometimes people think they know you. They know a few facts about you, and they piece you together in a way that makes sense to them. And if you don’t know yourself very well, you might even believe that they are right. But the truth is, that isn’t you. That isn’t you at all.”— Leila Sales, amazon.com
“Though I was technically as American as my blue-eyed and blonde classmates, I knew that, on some level, we were different.”— Sara Tan, bustle.com
“We deserve to have our stories told in the mainstream — the good, the bad, and the ugly — but it is worth thinking about whose comfort is being prioritized when it comes to the way those stories are packaged and sold.”— Shannon Keating, buzzfeed.com