Carlos Castaneda Quotes

I'm not even sure who I really am sometimes.

Who Am I? Or (Perhaps More Accurately) Who Else Could Be Me?

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

All my life, I have taken inventory at intervals. For example, when I became a movie actor and suddenly I had to deal with fame, money and playing so many roles, I lost myself. I said, 'Who am I?' And I wrote my first book to deal with that, 'The Ragman's Son.'

There's nothing harder than defining oneself.

My first four books, from 'Fight Club' to 'Choke,' dealt with personal identity issues. The crises the narrators found themselves in were generated by themselves.

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 stare at the mirror as I try to remember who I am and who I am not.

I know myself," he cried, "but that is all-

When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too.

Who am I supposed to be again? Just be yourself. But who am I?

All my life I've felt like somebody's wife, or somebody's mother or somebody's daughter. Even all the time we were together, I never knew who I was. And that's why I had to go away. And in California, I think I found myself.

I have no more idea now of who I am than I did before. But at least I know that. And I'm starting to figure out who I want to be.

Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself, in fact, confused.

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

Anybody can get lost in themselves.

When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.'

I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.

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

There's something safe about playing a character, but then it's like, 'Who am I underneath it all?'

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

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

There's a constant struggle between my ears about who I am and what I mean to the world.

I'm always thinking about what my identity is.

I don't know how happy I was when I met Sting. I always had this difficulty of not really knowing who I was.