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"