Matthew McConaughey Quotes

Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

There's nothing harder than defining oneself.

I don't even know who I am. All I know is that I am the sibling, daughter, sister, the friend of somebody, and I need to know who I am outside of that.

I know what my identity is.

I might not ever fully know who I am, but I also believe that I could be whoever I want, whenever I want.

The search for a personal identity is the life task of a teenager.

My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to believe.

Meg, when people don't know who they are, they are open either to being Xed, or Named

Once I know who I'm not, then I'll know who I am.

I'm always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how they want to be seen. And the older you get, the world keeps telling you different things about yourself. And how people either adjust to those things and let go of adolescent notions. Or they dig in deeper.

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

I think your self emerges more clearly over time.

In your mid-twenties, the paint is still wet on who you are.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

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.

As a teenager, you're still discovering who you are, what your life is about, and who you want to be as a person. It's very intense.

If it took professional wrestling for people to recognize me as a person, then all the other endeavors I embark upon will explain me as a person, define me as a person, but wrestling will not define me.

Some people want to define themselves, and they should, as it's part of their identity. For me personally, I've never really had a label for myself.

When we're growing up and being teenagers, oftentimes you try so hard to define yourself. You try to create an image of yourself because you don't really know who you are yet. And that can be kind of limiting because you forget that there are actually so many different sides of identity. And it's important to recognize that everyone is completely different.

Deciding what to be is more important than deciding what to do.

Identity is such a crucial affair that one shouldn't rush into it.

The first question in any interactive process with another is: now Who Am I, and Who Do I Want to Be, in relationship to that?

You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.

I think this is what college is all about: self-examination and dealing with those questions of "Who am I?"