Ian Mcewan Quotes

I have no issues with my identity.

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

I see myself as the same person as I was, as I am now.

More people know who I am, but I don't feel any different within myself - I think that's the main thing.

I'm also human so I have days when I look in the mirror and go, "All right . . . Things are definitely changing." I can see that.

I was looking in the mirror the other day and I realized I haven't changed much since I was in my twenties. The only difference is I look a whole lot older now.

I can't stand outside myself and be anybody else.

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.

When I was younger, my father told me not to pigeonhole the way that I perceive myself.

Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up.

You can't get away from who you are I guess.

At some point, the pride has to be a part of the whole day-to-day oeuvre. It's part of who you are and doesn't need to be discussed anymore.

I didn't want to have to deal with having any moniker or separation between the self that I see and know myself as.

It's not hard to keep up the image we chose. It's not hard to stay yourselves.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

I've always been very conscious of who I am.

When you're young, you worry about what other people think. The older you get, the less that matters.

Everybody perceives me because of my career that I'm a movie star, or I'm this model, but I'm still the same person I was when I was a little girl.

I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn't say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don't know myself at all yet.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

How you define yourself is a major issue for young people and adults alike.

Whatever your ethnicity is, in this life you are going to be on a journey to discover who you are and how you feel about yourself.

As you get older, there's a loosening of the ties to the ego and the posturing of who you are and how you behave.