Matt de la Pena Quotes

Not sure of my place in the world (still up for debate) and not sure what I wanted to do with my life (not really up for debate).

During those formative times, I really didn't know what was going on, and I was sort of torn in a thousand different directions with how I felt about what I was doing.

I spent a lot of time flailing around, not really sure what I wanted to do, in my 20s and early 30s.

I'm not even sure who I really am sometimes.

I do know my own mind,' protested Anne. 'The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.

When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know.

you feel a little bit lost right now about what to do with your life, a bit rudderless and oarless and aimless but that's okay that's alright because we're all meant to be like that at twenty-four.

I just wish that God or my parents or Sam or my sister or someone would just tell me what's wrong with me. Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense. To make this all go away.

If you are fragmented and uncertain, it is terrifying to find the boundaries of yourself melt.

I know it sounds pathetic, but I don't know who I am.

I'm not really sure if I have anything that inspires me.

I was very unsure about what I wanted to do in high school.

I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.

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

I've had times in my life when I really haven't been able to figure myself out.

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

There are times I can't even figure myself out.

I'm totally confused about what I'm going to do with my life.

I never felt like I had anything really figured out. When I was a teenager, it was all about teenagers having an 'identity crisis.' That was the phrase that was used. But in my early 20s, I was still like, 'When am I going to be over that?'

People would say to me, 'Who do you want to be as an artist?' And I would just look at them because I didn't know.

'My Struggle' came from a place of questioning and feelings of inauthenticity and frustration, and almost all of that is gone.

At 26, I barely knew who I was.

There was a time where I was really confused about who I was and what I was doing, and I was just kind of depressed.

I had no clue what I wanted to do. I tried nursing, I tried science, I tried English. I just kept bouncing back and forth.