Justin Simien Quotes

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

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

Anybody can get lost in themselves.

I have struggled with identity all my life. It's not like something that just happened last week.

I got a lot of paradoxes in my life. I guess I'm a real confused person, but there are some focused parts to my life now, and I'm slowly trying to put all the pieces back together.

As we wrestle with questions of identity, we imitate those actions we think best fill an ambiguity we have within ourselves. And that goes for everyone; no one is free from this condition.

I did a lot of struggling with my identity trying to figure out who the heck I was. I had to face my demons.

We're all different; we all have our ways of understanding ourselves and the way we live our lives and struggle with our humanity.

Every human being goes through a period of time in their life where they feel like they've lost who they are, and they're trying to figure out who they are and what they want to be.

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

When I was between 18 and 25 it was like I had problem finding the middle of my personality.

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

In the last couple of years I've been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to find out, who I am, It's something I think I'll be doing for the rest of my life.

You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares.

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.

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.

Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself, in fact, confused.

I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.

I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.

I kind of see myself as a cartoon that's on its way to becoming a real person that has to find that special amulet or mushroom to get to that next realm or level. I don't feel like anything is that tangible. It freaks me out, why I feel unhappy or conflicted and why that can change on a dime.

My songs are about not knowing who to be and not knowing how to act.

I don't know what I am. And it's not important.

There are parts of me that I keep secret even from myself. I have demons and I'd love to be able to healthily look at the demons and still be a wonderful actor and not feel I need them to create.

Sometimes I feel 15; other times, I feel fully grown and mature and handling all my business. It can waver from day to day, hour to hour.