Nicolas Cage Quotes

I don't even know who I am. All I know is that I am the sibling, daughter, sister, the friend of somebody, and I need to know who I am outside of that.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then.

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

What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else - when you want to be another person.

We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too.

Without a musket to raise, a barricade to storm, a flag to wave, the question hit me in the face like the cold air: 'Who am I?'

I've never, ever labeled myself.

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 don't even know what my voice is to this day.

There's nothing harder than defining oneself.

I've always been fascinated by this idea of who we are versus who we want to be.

Every one of us at some point in our lives has had the struggle with identity.

If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.

It feels weird to say there's more to me than that, like I'm being overdramatic, and a tear rolls down my cheek. But, no - I do like I feel like there's more to me than just baseball.

I think, personally, it's our flaws that define us to us - or maybe it's just me.

There's who you think you are and who you want to be, and then who you actually are.

No matter what you do in life, it's always a struggle, to first of all find who you are.

Who are we? Whom do we want to become? How do we perceive ourselves? How do we want to be perceived? These questions of identity are often at the core of our own internal struggles. Resolve them, and you are closer to being free.

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

I think I spent a lot of my mid-twenties thinking it was a problem of my onstage persona. But, actually, it was my actual personality. I was still working out what kind of person I was.

Who Am I? Or (Perhaps More Accurately) Who Else Could Be Me?

You might have one thing in your head, but the things you're doing don't really lead down the right road, necessarily. When you're young, you don't want to hear that. You think you can do everything, be all things.

...fact was she knew more about them than she knew about herself, having never had the map to discover what she was like. Could she sing? (Was it nice to hear when she did?) Was she pretty? Was she a good friend? Could she have been a loving mother? A faithful wife? Have I got a sister and does she favor me? If my mother knew me would she like me? (140)

We do. Or re-create the ones we have, and project. My whole life is projection.