I Am What I Am/Quotes

"If I'm gonna be a loser, I'm gonna lose the way I wanna lose."

- Clayton, Out There here

"I yam what I yam and that's all that I yam"

- Popeye the Sailor Man

""Do you know what I learned losing that duel? I learned that I'll never win, not that way. That's their game. Their rules. I'm not going to fight them. I'm going to fuck them. That is what I know. That's what I am. And only by admitting what we are, can we get what we want.""

- Petyr Baelish, Game of Thrones describing one of the darkest examples of this trope.

"''Say what I mean, and I don't give a damn,

I do believe that I Am What I Am''"

- Liberty, The Grateful Dead

" 'Cause I am whatever you say I am If I wasn't, then why would I say I am? In the paper, the news everyday, I am I don't know, it's just the way I am"

- Eminem, "The Way I Am"