Emraan Hashmi Quotes

Where I fit in is confusing to me.

I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal.

High school was a complicated, confusing time for me. I wasn't confident, didn't know who I was, and was hiding from myself a lot.

The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally.

The funny thing is I'm actually really insecure. I have a lot of girl issues - 'I'm not pretty enough,' 'I'm not skinny enough' - but there is a confidence I have in what I can do. I did tend to overcompensate to cover up other insecurities that I have.

When people are struggling, that's a painful place to be in, to not know who you are and where you belong and what you desire.

I think that half of us feel fraudulent in our lives anyway. There's that strange disconnect of not really knowing what we're doing sometimes, or why it matters. It's our existential 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.

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.

People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.

I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am - if that defines a punk, then yes, absolutely.

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

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

I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.

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

I liked myself better when I wasn't me.

I can't say I have control over my emotions; I don't know my mind. I'm lost like everyone else. I'm certainly not a leader.

No matter how I look, the freak inside me leaks out.

I couldn't be as charming as my mother or as smart as my father. So I decided to be bad.

I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.

You know, either I'm too fat or I'm flavour of the month. I don't feel either, but maybe I'm both, who knows?

In school, I had a tough time fitting in, and dancing was my way of being in my own element. As a teenager, I became a bit disillusioned with it. Even with competitions, I'd win, but still there would be tears.

'Different' is such a good word. For me, ever since I was little, I always felt that something was off. And I just didn't have the resources to - I just didn't know what it was.

Ever since I was a child, I have loved being the centre of attention, but similarly, I can't remember a time in my life that I haven't battled with all sorts of quandaries, fears and weaknesses.

But I've always been fascinated with that prettiest-girl-in-the-class person that I never was, getting inside her head and showing that she's just as tormented and messed up as everybody else.