Zadie Smith Quotes

I have struggled with identity all my life. It's not like something that just happened last week.

I'm not sure who I am. That's why I keep saying I'm an adventurer that goes out.

Identity has been such an explosive territory for me... so hard, so painful at times.

I know for myself, and maybe I'm weird or whatever, but the whole thing is about constantly redefining identity.

Every human being goes through a period of time in their life where they feel like they've lost who they are, and they're trying to figure out who they are and what they want to be.

I definitely, when I was younger, struggled a little to understand my identity and who I wanted to be.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.

My problem was I let myself become known before I knew myself.

I worry that if I enjoy something - like the songs on 'Some Nights' are about wondering about who you are. I'm never quite sure and I'd hate to feel sort of content and get a good sense of who I am because if I know one thing, that's not me. I don't mind not necessarily being happy about it. And that's fine.

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.

I think that we're all continually searching for who we are, and that's ever-evolving and changing.

One of my problems is to find the self.

I'm okay with myself. I had times when I was 15 about 'Who I am?' and 'What am I?' and where I want to go, and that's behind me.

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.

I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn't say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don't know myself at all yet.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

A lot of people come to L.A. looking for something. What I came here for, I realize now, is to be okay with myself.

There's nothing harder than defining oneself.

My whole life has been about figuring out the balance between knowing who I am and being who I am and accepting that people will come to me with all sorts of preconceptions.

I'm always thinking about what my identity is.

Every one of us at some point in our lives has had the struggle with identity.

I think I became an actress because I didn't know who I was, and I certainly didn't like the person I saw when I looked in the mirror.

I do think of 'The Idiot,' in a way, as a self-standing book about a certain struggle to make meaning, the struggle for a girl to find meaning outside of the romance plot.

I have always felt like I was just sort of waiting to catch up to the rest of myself.

I don't know how happy I was when I met Sting. I always had this difficulty of not really knowing who I was.