Finn Jones Quotes

I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I'm from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.

I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in... There's always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself.

I often feel like an outsider wherever I go, so I'm always attracted to stories about identity and the meaning of home.

Unfortunately, I think I drifted so much growing up that I don't have a strong sense of identity. I don't feel at home anywhere, and because of that, I think I'm more of a chameleon.

Since I was five, I've known that I was adopted, which is a politically correct term for being clueless about one's own origins.

I, at the age of 17 or 18 as a medical student, suddenly came up against a problem: 'What am I? What is the meaning of my existence as I experience it?'

There was a period when I had a hard time reconciling all the different parts of me in a way that I thought would make sense to others.

I am a mystery to myself.

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

As an adopted person, once you find out about that 'other' side of yourself, it's almost like you find out who you really are.

I'm adopted, so I didn't know my father, but apparently he was pretty tall.

There's something safe about playing a character, but then it's like, 'Who am I underneath it all?'

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

I really do feel like Los Angeles is my home now and, as cliche as this sounds, I felt like I found myself here and I really know who I am now. There was a long period like I was drifting or floating through life, and now I feel like I have a definitive target - and future.

Thematically, in a lot of what I write, there's a sense of displacement, of being rooted in multiple places, and how that can tug at your identities and your wants and your goals.

I do think that the abiding mystery of my origins has definitely had a profound effect upon my writing. There is that thing in the back of my mind where I think I don't really know who I am. And it may make it a little easier to shift around in my narrative voice.

I just gravitate to movies where the mystery is the character himself. Any time you see a trailer of something where somebody is questioning 'Who am I?' I'm hooked.

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.

If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.

In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I'd never stayed in one place for so long.

Sometimes 'Frances' can be about finding the missing piece, trying to look for biological family as opposed to maybe realizing your family is whoever is around you at the time.

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

I think Compton is definitely a part of my, my family history - a part of me.

Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle.

I think, now, younger generations do take that for granted in a lot of ways. I don't think that takes away from the struggle of identity and what that is. But the struggle for identity is everybody's struggle. No matter what it is.