Hilton Als Quotes

I am your homegirl, at the end of the day, but I also feel very... outside. So if you're finding solace in feeling outside with me, then we're good to go.

I think home has become my friends and family, wherever they are.

I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.

I relate to most of the characters I play, because I do feel like an outsider.

The essential dilemma of my life is between my deep desire to belong and my suspicion of belonging.

I'm not used to feeling like I belong where I am.

I suppose when you are an outsider, you will always be an outsider.

Even though I was manically overachieving and involved in everything, I still never felt like I belonged. That's definitely affected my whole life and why I wanted to become an actor and tell people stories, because communication and feeling like you belong is such an integral part of our social fabric.

At least I had that, one guy understood me.

I can relate to somebody wanting to have something to believe in.

I don't like the idea that fame could mean that people can no longer relate to me.

I've always craved to belong to somewhere, but I never have and never will.

I think the sense of community that exists with all the characters - that's the answer. The fact that they have found a family in their friends. It does give some depth and meaning to their lives.

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Home can be the friend you have been searching for all your life or the person you met once very briefly.

For most of my childhood, even through college, there was a lot of feeling very alone. I loved TV, so when those very special episodes of anything came, or when certain characters reflected the world I lived in, I felt connected.

I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

There are some people who make you feel less lonely.

If I'm kind of an outsider, it just happened that way, and people responded to it.

People feel like they know me, in a strange way, like they grew up with me or they went to high school with me!

I realized that there's this fine line between being personal and being general and being alienating.

Next to my family in Manila, Journey is my family.

I think the reason why people loved 'Jem' in the '80s was because it kind of gave them this story of a place to fit in. It's about finding your place.

Products are a way to connect with - or disconnect from - who you are.