“Hollywood to me is what it is to you. It's something other than what I am. I sit outside it.”

“In me is working a power stronger than every other power. The life that is in me is a thousand times bigger than I am outside.”

“You can say anything about me; as you please… But I am what I am and that's something that you can never be”

“Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.”

“You want me to say something? Okay. Sometimes I think I am what you made me. And sometimes I don’t know who I am at all. And either way I’m not happy.”

“The original question of desire is not directly 'What do I want?', but 'What do others want from me? What do they see in me? What am I to others?”

“If I never see you again
I will always carry you
inside
outside

on my fingertips
and at brain edges

and in centers
centers
of what I am of
what remains.”

“Everyone has to do something for survival, but that something does not have to define the real character of a person. I am what my head tells me I am. I am what my feelings say I am. I do not depend on anyone’s approval.”

“What can I do if everyone from the president to a junior bureaucrat is dying to convict me. If I am such a criminal, what was I doing outside jail before my marriage to Benazir?”

“I am doing something I hate for you. This is what it means to be in love.”