Jacob Batalon Quotes

I could easily not be the person that people know.

I would love to break away from my comic image.

That image of who I was publicly was so solidified. You're that person. And it wasn't even close to a true representation of where I was in my life.

It's one of those things that gets written off as humorous when you watch a child entertainer try to redefine themselves, but it can be an intense identity crisis.

It's really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you're still a child, still playing a game. But on the other hand, you're a superhuman hero that everyone dreams of being. No wonder we have such a hard time understanding who we are.

I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else who can say this.

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.

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.

Buffy's very similar to me to me when I was growing up. A child in an adult world, sort of trapped between the two. Does Buffy go to the prom or does she save the world from demons?

I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same direction everybody else's was. And that life was going to be very, very complicated. And that I could either be provocative and declamatory, or shy, retiring and scared.

That's what fame does to you. You acquire another self.

I just don't see myself as the heroine in my own narrative.

I suppose there must be some way in which I'm compelled to show some side of myself - or of people - that's paranoid and fraught and beleaguered and downtrodden, just as Tom Cruise wants to show that he's terrifyingly upbeat and terrifyingly heroic all the time.

My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye.

I never felt happy with the idea that part of what I do is to be an object to be looked at. I thought of my public persona as an entity separate to myself.

Every superhero has this superhero identity and a civilian identity. A lot of their lives are about code switching.

This is what I would say to my pupil: 'You have become only your fame and left behind most of who you were. How are you going to deal with that? Will you lose that person forever? Have you become someone else without really knowing it? Do you always have to stay in character for people to like you? Do you know that you are in character?'.

It's hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

The first three years my hair was purple, I still was trying to convince myself that I hated the color purple.

It wasn't much fun being Charlotte Go-Go. I like being Charlotte Caffey better.

For my entire life, I've wrestled with my gender identity.

'The Darkest Minds' came from a period in my life where I felt my most powerless, when I was a teenager.

The main downside was that it [fame] happened so quickly and I didn't have time to establish what kind of person I wanted to be.

I do feel kind of like I have a split identity in that there's Van Jones, who has this big public role and tries to inspire millions of people to do new stuff together. And then there's just me: a pretty quiet, shy, retiring person.

I'm always tripped up by the eternal who am I?