James Dean Quotes

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.

Being a kid, as all kids do, you feel out of place or like kind of a freak. You wake up feeling like your head got put onto someone else's body that day.

I was always a little unsteady in my self-belief. Then there was the Jewish thing. I love being Jewish, I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it.

I'm a misplaced American, but don't know where I was misplaced.

My motivation is, in part, a bit of angst that comes from feeling like I don't belong, that our generation doesn't belong.

In my early years, I couldn't find a community. I couldn't find anybody like me. I felt so isolated. There was nothing but shame and loneliness.

I never felt comfortable in my own skin, and I feel like I missed out on a lot of high school experiences because I was so worried about where I fit in because I was so confused.

I stand on the end platform of the tram and am completely unsure of my footing in this world, in this town, in my family. Not even casually could I indicate any claims that I might rightly advance in any direction. I have not even any defense to offer for standing on this platform, holding on to this strap, letting myself be carried along by this tram, nor for the people who give way to the tram or walk quietly along or stand gazing into shop windows. Nobody asks me to put up a defense, indeed, but that is irrelevant.

You described the feeling you’d always had of being misplaced, of always standing to one side of yourself, of watching yourself in the world even as you were being in the world, and wondering if this was how everyone felt. That you always believed that other people had a clearer idea of what they were doing, and didn’t worry quite so much about why.

I was very lost as a teenager. Which is a horrible way to feel.

I don't know what 'home' or 'abroad' is any more.

All of a sudden I'm an actor, and I spend a decade trying to fit in and realising that I didn't, really. Sometimes in the right circumstances, with the right people, it felt OK. But other times it was a bit more jobbing. I didn't fit the mould, somehow.

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

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.

I don't know anyone who hasn't woken up one morning, one day in their life and wish they were someone else, or wish they could do something or wish they were capable of something.

'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.

I have spent my years since Princeton, while at law school and in my various professional jobs, not feeling completely a part of the worlds I inhabit. I am always looking over my shoulder wondering if I measure up.

Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.

To live is to feel oneself lost.

Where I fit in is confusing to me.

I feel uncomfortable because I'm insecure about who I am.

I have never felt out of place in my entire life. But I did at Yale.

I've often felt I don't belong quite wherever I am.

Even though my parents were famous actors, I honestly felt most of the time that I didn't understand what was going on.

I don't feel that I belong anywhere. Or rather, if there's a place I belong, I don't feel I'm there.