Karen Russell Quotes

I don't know who I am. Or maybe I do know who I am and I just don't want to be her anymore.

I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.

I had a series of mini-breakdowns where the public persona - this thing, this face, this person who writes this music... I would walk past that person in the mirror or listen to that person playing guitar and I didn't know who they were.

When I wasn't working I didn't know what to do with myself and sort of didn't exist, in a way, when I wasn't working, so I was like two different people. I am not like that anymore.

I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn't identify with the person on the screen. I couldn't get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else.

I look at that person and I'm like, That's not Kelli White. That's not who I am, who I started out to be.

The woman who made those movies, that's not me. She's someone else.

I don't even recognize myself sometimes.

It sometimes happens and will sometimes happen again that I forget who I am and strut before my eyes, like a stranger.

Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.

I can't see my reflection in the waters, I can't speak the sounds that show no pain. I can't hear the echo of my footsteps, or can't remember the sound of my own name.

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

When I can't see myself in the mirror, I can't even feel myself, and I begin to wonder if I exist at all.

But it's no use now," thought poor Alice, "to pretend to be two people! Why, there's ahrdly enough of me left to make one respectable person!

I don't know who I am or who I was. I know it less than ever. I do and I don't identify myself with myself. Everything is totally contradictory, but maybe I have remained exactly as I was as a small boy of twelve.

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

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

I feel completely alone - it's like melting, I am the structure, and I am also Alain Robert.

Am I a 'woman of action'? I don't think of myself that way.

There are certain nights you and your image just aren't in the same bed.

I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?

I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then.

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.