Don McCullin Quotes

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

I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.

When I look at myself, I see a person who strangely lacks what I consider the ingredients of a personality.

As we wrestle with questions of identity, we imitate those actions we think best fill an ambiguity we have within ourselves. And that goes for everyone; no one is free from this condition.

I've spent my entire life trying to figure out why I was different than everybody else. Why is my voice so deep? Why am I so muscular?

I'm always tripped up by the eternal who am I?

I don't know who I am. Or maybe I do know who I am and I just don't want to be her anymore.

I have filled 3 Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me.

I don't want to be lofty when I say this, but I don't know what a success is any more. I know how we define it, but that was a moment where I went, "Wait, who am I?" You could feel the business, in particular, kind of go "He's all right, let's go over here." I started to go, "Wait, I know why I love to do this." I think I got off track in why I love to do it.

She wondered if she was doomed to be one of those people who spend their lives trying things.

I've been uncomfortable dealing with my identity since I was 16 years old.

I've had the longest mid-life crisis ever.

I didn't think I was an actor and fought it for a long time. Nobody paid for that but me.

There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.

For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell.

I look back at old photographs and videotapes, and I go, Who was I trying to be? Who was I doing this for?

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

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.

Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.

I'd got a part in the original cast of 'Cats' when I was 16, and that kept me going for a while. After that, I felt lost, both personally and professionally - I was trying to find a way not to be seen only as this bubbly, bright, vivacious person. It felt like I'd lost the freedom to make mistakes.

It was sort of an experiment to try to leave the violin. Can I be a real person without this thing? It was a big part of my identity.

With the first album, I wanted to do so many different things, and I was fighting with myself to try and see if I was worthy enough to do it.

I had a series of mini-breakdowns where the public persona - this thing, this face, this person who writes this music... I would walk past that person in the mirror or listen to that person playing guitar and I didn't know who they were.

My sense of myself is that I was a rather unformed kind of person trying to make myself up out of bits of spit and string.