Ashley Tisdale Quotes

I want to be a woman who has a little bit more figured out, who doesn't have so many doubts.

When I first started, I was definitely reserved,. I was still trying to find myself.

Kids have to experiment a little or figure out where they belong.

I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was - knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while.

I'm always thinking about identity. And the middle-school years are a time of exploring questions about who you are and who you want to be. For the first time, you see the world in a broader sense.

I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be.

I never knew what I wanted to do, but I knew the kind of woman I wanted to be.

I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.

More than anything, acting helped me discover who I'm not. I've learned that I'm a girly girl, but not a prissy girl.

I'm okay with myself. I had times when I was 15 about 'Who I am?' and 'What am I?' and where I want to go, and that's behind 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.

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.

I'm not sure who I am. That's why I keep saying I'm an adventurer that goes out.

I have a really wide range of interests and I've still got time to work out my exact direction.

If you have a sense of your place in the world, that's the best preparation for anything.

People haven't seen enough of me. My fights haven't gone the distance, and people have a lot of questions. I want to find out for myself as much as the people do. I want to find out what I can do.

I've gotten this advice at different times, and it distills down to one word: purpose. Why are you here? When you start to get distracted by thoughts such as 'Do I fit in? Does this person like me?' - remember why you're there and what you want to accomplish.

I think in the experience of growing up and realizing who you are, what your place in the world is can be quite scary.

Youth is such a fascinating and volatile concoction of vulnerability, dependence, restlessness, relentlessness. You're still learning the terms of the world and of the self, in a very immediate way.

When I started with 'Cocktail,' I was trying to figure out if this was something I wanted to do.

Find your voice and don't be afraid to explore it.

It's about knowing yourself and what you're good at. Females, males - anyone can be anything they want to be.

I've always known exactly who I am, but growing up has always been a struggle. I've even been called an 'it.'

I know when I was growing up, I was always lost and just thought I was alone and that I needed to find where I belonged.