Rosemarie DeWitt Quotes

Every character is asking: 'What's my place? Why am I here? I don't want the answer to be 'Just because.' You find your own purpose. Each finds the reason to be here and how to contribute.

When the work you're doing every single day is so directly about who you are as an individual and who you are as a person, it can be both exhausting and empowering in different moments.

I think everybody can identify, you know, with this sort of struggle to decide for yourself who you are, you know, and what your place in life is.

Everyone at a point in their life is struggling to find out who they are and where they belong.

People will always try to find themselves and their place in the world.

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

I've come to believe that whoever I am didn't start on December 14, 1946, and isn't going to end on whatever that mysterious date is in the future.

I'm right at a time when I'm strongly finding my identity inside of my work.

We all need a firm sense of identity.

I learned more about myself by being an RN than anything else I've ever done.

If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.

I think the more important task for a young person than developing a personal brand is figuring out what she's great at, what she loves to do, and how she can use that to leave an imprint in the world. Those are tough questions, but essential ones. Answer those - and the personal brand follows.

I went through a lot of occupations. I was questioning my contribution to the world.

Many people find their calling very early in their lives. These are the kind of people we read about in school books and newspapers. Then there are some who don't have a clue of what they want to do in their lives; I am belong to the latter category.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

I am who I am: I have my life experiences and my professional experiences.

Never think you can separate who you are from what you're doing.

'Who do you think you are?' That's the big one, isn't it? A flourishing life depends on how you answer that.

I can't tell you what your purpose is, that's got to come from you.

You have to look yourself in the eye and ask, 'Who are you?' It can't be all about work.

As a teenager, you're still discovering who you are, what your life is about, and who you want to be as a person. It's very intense.

I got to a point when I was 20 that I dropped out of university because I felt I didn't have any purpose, and I wanted to find a fire in me.

We are all good at things - a varied assortment of things - and we all desperately need to find out what those things are for our self-esteem. If there is anything young people need, it is confidence and an identity and a purpose.