Alexandra Bracken Quotes

I've always been afraid of who I am and not knowing what I can do.

Even though I was manically overachieving and involved in everything, I still never felt like I belonged. That's definitely affected my whole life and why I wanted to become an actor and tell people stories, because communication and feeling like you belong is such an integral part of our social fabric.

'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 still feel like an immature idiot inside, but I look in the mirror and - as a friend of mine once said- this old guy keeps getting in the way.

So when I look in the mirror I'm driven by both vanity and fear.

I wasn't the cool kid in school, but I wasn't the lame one. I knew I wasn't cool, so I called myself lame, and that's what made me cool in front of the cool kids.

Yes, what is it like? Certainly not like she dreamed. But maybe that's okay. We want what we want. At home, she works herself into a frenzy worrying about what she isn't--and perhaps loses track of just where she is.

The most dangerous thing you can do is know who you are.

It demeans you to cover rotten meat with honey. I know what I am. What would you want with a monster?" "Everything.

Even if I don't like what I am, I know what I am. My children like what they are, but they don't know what they are. So tell me which is worse.

I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.

Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.

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

I've come to terms with the fact that I'm not convincing as an American.

I think that when a person is insecure about who they are or who they want to be, then it translates on screen, and the choices they make are all about perception.

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.

I've never felt as though I didn't belong, I just acted as though I did.

I see pictures of myself and I always knew that what I was feeling didn't look like that guy in the pictures.

For me, the teen years were all about searching for a place for myself, wondering why I seemed so different than everyone else, wondering especially why no one could look past the surface and figure out who I really was underneath.

When I was a kid, monsters made me feel that I could fit somewhere, even if it was... an imaginary place where the grotesque and the abnormal were celebrated and accepted.

I'm basically a professional nerd, and I'm still not cool. I'm around people who are cool sometimes, and I know I'm not them. But that's OK; I don't care.

If I put on a tie and play what I really think I am, I'm a disaster.

I always wanted to be more validated as a human being, as a person, than I was as a player. I think that was a really hard balance for me.

I don't know if I feel like an outsider or an insider; I just feel like I always did. I don't have one of those stories where I felt like no one understood me.

I can't look at the mirror beyond two minutes. I don't know what to look at. What is the point of looking at yourself? You can't change your face.