Mani Ratnam Quotes

Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet.

You get older and you see yourself and say, 'God, he's old, who's that?'

You can have the platinum album. But, you know, when you still feel like you haven't quite found your place in the world, it kind of gives a crazy offset.

When you're a kid, regardless of the age you grew up, everything is high opera. With hormones raging, you have to fight external and internal battles that you've never had to deal with before. Unlike Tony Stark and Steve Rogers, who have seen it all and been through it all, everything heightens the drama.

I've been having a midlife crisis since I was four years old.

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.

There was a period when I had a hard time reconciling all the different parts of me in a way that I thought would make sense to others.

I tend toward characters who are more lost than found.

You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.

I want to see what I look like when I'm old - I'm curious where that's going to take me.

I've always been interested in how fast-moving our identity is and that I've never been able to pin down who I truly am. That inspires me to write, because I feel like that cements me a bit, in that I find my identity in being an artist.

You grow and you change, or at least you think you do, but you're kind of the same.

Fifteen is such a weird age to be. Nobody treats you like an adult, but you desperately want to be one. You still have these childlike aspects, but you're just kind of coming into the world.

I was never interested in looking at myself in an aesthetic mirror. My intention was always to get away from myself, though I knew perfectly well that I was using myself. Call it a little game between 'I' and 'me.'

After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.

I always did think that when I turned 40, I'd start coming into my own.

From a very young age, I suspected there was more to my world than I could see: somewhere in the streets of Istanbul, in a house resembling ours, there lived another Orhan so much like me he could pass for my twin, even my double.

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.

I feel like I've grown up a bit. I'm a bit more confident, and I've been reading more, and I've had a little more time to myself. I went on this writing trip to gather my thoughts about where and who I am in this world, and why we're all here.

Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.

It's a beautiful thing at 60 to know who you are.

The mid-life crisis is just those times when you're not so into the things you were when you were younger.

It's interesting when you're in your thirties and you're not the same pretty boy that you were when you were 21. I think people's anger at themselves getting older is projected on to you because you become a symbol of that.