Tilda Swinton Quotes

I am, it seems, interested in people with multiple identities. I think we all have multiple identities.

That's an interesting way to put it: an expectation of who you should be. More often than not, it's described as an expectation of who you are.

I know what my identity is.

We hear a lot about identity theft when someone takes your wallet and pretends to be you and uses your credit cards. But the more serious identity theft is to get swallowed up in other people's definition of you.

Meg, when people don't know who they are, they are open either to being Xed, or Named

Identity is something that you are constantly earning.

Brands communicate in two directions: they help us tell other people something about ourselves, but they also help us form ideas about who we are.

A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.

I guess there are a lot of people out there that think they're supposed to define themselves in isolation, but that's not necessarily the case.

Each person tells you who they think they are, and who they think you are.

I think in some ways we have allowed other people to set the agenda. Other people to define who we are.

In a way, you kind of get caught up in whatever image of yourself you think is out there.

I'm always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how they want to be seen. And the older you get, the world keeps telling you different things about yourself. And how people either adjust to those things and let go of adolescent notions. Or they dig in deeper.

You think you know who you are, and then other people have these other ideas.

The idea is that in any situation, people have a notion as to who they are and how they should behave. And if you don't behave according to your identity, you pay a cost.

Identity is an assemblage of constellations.

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am.

My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.

I couldn't imagine living my life with another name.

There's no such thing as identity: it's something we have to believe in to make life more tolerable.

When you have a lot of people telling you what you are and perceiving you in a certain way, it's difficult to find your own identity.

What is your identity, and how do you know who you are if you don't have language?

I have a very healthy dose of scepticism towards what identity is and what personas are, maybe because of my life journey. Identity is something so malleable.

Some people want to define themselves, and they should, as it's part of their identity. For me personally, I've never really had a label for myself.

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.