Jake Gyllenhaal Quotes

Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle.

You spend so much time wondering who you are, don't you think? You flounder about, searching for your identity, when most of the time it is plain as the nose on your face. You struggle with questions of purpose and need, and forget that the answers are found mostly inside yourselves.

There was a period when I had a hard time reconciling all the different parts of me in a way that I thought would make sense to others.

I think this is what college is all about: self-examination and dealing with those questions of "Who am I?"

My starting point was the search for my identity in foreign places, in places where I am estranged from myself.

I think people who struggle to define themselves might never be satisfied because there is no definition. Living with responsibility is important, but I don't really think you have to grow up.

I'm always thinking about identity. And the middle-school years are a time of exploring questions about who you are and who you want to be. For the first time, you see the world in a broader sense.

I really feel sorry for new generation. It's hard to find backbone. I never had crisis of identity. But I think many Americans have it.

I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same direction everybody else's was. And that life was going to be very, very complicated. And that I could either be provocative and declamatory, or shy, retiring and scared.

One of the things that I am learning is that each generation will have its own negotiations with identity. And one generation can not necessarily help the other generation with it.

I think that we're all continually searching for who we are, and that's ever-evolving and changing.

I've always had this identity thing. When I was little, I was always changing my handwriting because I couldn't decide which one I liked best.

I've etched out who I am through myriad haircut attempts, outfit attempts, beauty attempts, diet attempts. It's been an evolution.

There's something safe about playing a character, but then it's like, 'Who am I underneath it all?'

Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.

There's nothing harder than defining oneself.

When you have a lot of people telling you what you are and perceiving you in a certain way, it's difficult to find your own identity.

I know for myself, and maybe I'm weird or whatever, but the whole thing is about constantly redefining identity.

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

In many ways, I think I'm still forming my ideas about my own identity in this world.

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.

I know what my identity is.

Growing up, I had a bit of an identity crisis.

I definitely, when I was younger, struggled a little to understand my identity and who I wanted to be.

I've always been a bit of a lost soul, and I think that goes back to me being adopted and not knowing my roots.