Aleksandar Hemon Quotes

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'

I often sit back and think, I wish I'd done that, and find out later that I already have.

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

I'd be like, 'You're a young, vibrant woman. Where are you?' I realized that I had been living in denial.

I still don't know quite what I'm supposed to do or be.

I look at that person and I'm like, That's not Kelli White. That's not who I am, who I started out to be.

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

Like most people in college, I just wasn't really sure who I was.

In a sense, I am achieving what I set out to do - to devote myself to Stephen, to give him the chance of fulfilling his genius. But what have I become in the process? Who am I? What is there left of me? I am beginning to doubt my own identity.

I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.

A man who has his initials on his pyjamas must be uncertain of himself. Surely you should know who you are at bed time.

When you are self-conscious you are in trouble. When you are self-conscious you are really showing symptoms that you don't know who you are. Your very self-consciousness indicates that you have not come home yet.

In one split second I saw everything I could be, everything I want to be. And all that I'm not.

It's easy to forget who you are.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

I have been a woman for 46 years and I only recently realized I can't change it and I like it.

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

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

Earlier in my career, I was really tight, really together, and knew who I was and I was confident. I kind of feel in between now.

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

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

Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness. 'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis.

I worry that if I enjoy something - like the songs on 'Some Nights' are about wondering about who you are. I'm never quite sure and I'd hate to feel sort of content and get a good sense of who I am because if I know one thing, that's not me. I don't mind not necessarily being happy about it. And that's fine.

Sometimes I feel like a has-been who never was.