Angelina Jolie Quotes

When you are in a band for a number of years you loose your identity in a way. You become a part of that band and then all of a sudden you are not part of that band. You are still the band without the other two members.

If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self - himself - he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.

I'm aware that success can overwhelm you. The perception of you can be elevated to such a status that it's not you any more.

I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don't recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.

One of the things about incarceration is that you're deprived. You lose all of your identity, and then its given back one day, and you're ill-equipped to actually embrace it and work it.

If you realize what the real problem is-losing yourself-you realize that this itself is the ultimate trial.

Once you don't have freedom and you're obliged to do many things you don't want, and it becomes a routine, then your identity is at stake because you can feel that you are not anymore yourself, that you are what they want you to be - and you can lose yourself.

Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.

I have the feeling that I know who I am, only I'm not anymore.

I wore Nietzsche's eyes. Now that I step back to see, I haven't been me.

It's a basic fact about being human that sometimes the self seems to just melt away.

Sometimes I try to lose my identity, and I can't get rid of it!

Everyone is the other and no one is himself.

It's not a little thing to lose your identification and who you believe yourself to be.

A person likes to think of himself in a certain way, and when something happens that makes that no longer possible, you mourn the old self. The person you thought you were.

I don't know how to not become every person I walk by.

To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self.

I lost my public self, or had it stolen. In a way, it was a form of identity theft.

We have a game we play when we’re waiting for tables in restaurants, where you have to write the five things that describe yourself on a piece of paper. When I was [in my twenties], I would have put: ambitious, Wellesley graduate, daughter, Democrat, single. Ten years later not one of those five things turned up on my list. I was: journalist, feminist, New Yorker, divorced, funny. Today not one of those five things turns up in my list: writer, director, mother, sister, happy.

I used to be a cool chick but I feel like the paparazzi has taken that away from me, like, the way I used to live my life. I used to be a cool chick but I'm not anymore.

Sometimes it'll happen to people, that their self will stop coming through. And people will just cease to understand them.

Is there really nothing, nothing left of me?

As I became George professionally and everyone called me George, Yog became the name that people who knew me from before started to use. It became more valuable to me.

I used to be somebody. Now I’m somebody else.

I was unrecognizable to myself; I saw my reflection in a window; I didn't know my own face.