Madelaine Petsch Quotes

I have struggled with identity all my life. It's not like something that just happened last week.

I'm not sure who I am. That's why I keep saying I'm an adventurer that goes out.

I think that we're all continually searching for who we are, and that's ever-evolving and changing.

One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.

All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure out who we are, doing things that are the polar opposite of our characteristics.

There's nothing harder than defining oneself.

I know for myself, and maybe I'm weird or whatever, but the whole thing is about constantly redefining identity.

Every one of us at some point in our lives has had the struggle with identity.

In many ways, I think I'm still forming my ideas about my own identity in this world.

I do love the idea of people at a certain time in their lives when they're questioning, figuring out who to be. I find that interesting, but honestly, I think it's like that at every time in your life.

I definitely, when I was younger, struggled a little to understand my identity and who I wanted to be.

I know it sounds pathetic, but I don't know who I am.

My songs are about not knowing who to be and not knowing how to act.

I lost myself in the process and I realized how much I had identified myself with Maria Shriver, newswoman. When that was gone, I had to really sit back and go, 'Well, actually, who am I today?'

Being at college, I think that's the time when you really start searching for things outside yourself.

I've etched out who I am through myriad haircut attempts, outfit attempts, beauty attempts, diet attempts. It's been an evolution.

Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.

I think that as a young lady, you start off not knowing what you want to do, and then you kinda arrive at yourself by the time you're 17 or 18, hopefully. And that's what I did.

Everything when you're a teenager is a projection. Or at least, for me, it was. 'Who am I gonna be?'

Identity has been such an explosive territory for me... so hard, so painful at times.

I'm always thinking about what my identity is.

As we wrestle with questions of identity, we imitate those actions we think best fill an ambiguity we have within ourselves. And that goes for everyone; no one is free from this condition.

I don't even know who I am. All I know is that I am the sibling, daughter, sister, the friend of somebody, and I need to know who I am outside of that.

I think we all have identity crises throughout our lives.

I had to figure out at 61 years of age: 'Holy moly! Who am I?'