Aisha Hinds Quotes

For the last 14 years or so, I've been a fighter for so long I kind of forgot what it's like to not have this as my biggest form of expression of who I am.

I'm reminded of who I am, who I was, and who I'm supposed to be.

How would I behave in a situation that caused me to summon the essence of my character? The tragedy inspired me to test myself. I wanted to reveal to myself who I was: the kind of person who died, or the kind of person who overcame circumstances to help himself and others

In the last couple of years I've been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to find out, who I am, It's something I think I'll be doing for the rest of my life.

We're always attracted to characters who are people we could identify with and yet are put through incredibly tortured or difficult circumstances - the idea being that you don't really know who you are until you've been tested or suffered in some way.

You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares.

I know it sounds pathetic, but I don't know who I am.

But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them.

I lost myself in the process and I realized how much I had identified myself with Maria Shriver, newswoman. When that was gone, I had to really sit back and go, 'Well, actually, who am I today?'

I think everybody faces challenges in their lives. I've definitely been through it - not to the extreme that Astrid did. I try to keep some kind of identity and strength.

Without a musket to raise, a barricade to storm, a flag to wave, the question hit me in the face like the cold air: 'Who am I?'

At some point, when I finished school in Zurich, I suddenly realised that I was nobody. I couldn't find a shape. Everything I was had been invented. Initially, I took it to be a fundamental conflict. But today I find pleasure in accepting that this thing called 'identity' is the true invention. There's no way that it really exists.

I think everyone is trying to figure out who they are and their own thing.

I couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of 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 think I lost my sense of identity when I was married. I know I did. And it took me a very long time to regain it and find out who I was.

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

In many ways, I think I'm still forming my ideas about my own identity in this world.

I think, personally, it's our flaws that define us to us - or maybe it's just me.

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

I think I spent a lot of my mid-twenties thinking it was a problem of my onstage persona. But, actually, it was my actual personality. I was still working out what kind of person I was.

We all believe that we are a certain kind of person, but we never know until we do something that proves otherwise, or until we die.

No matter what happens in life, never lose sight of who you are.

Through my handicaps, I have found my self, my work, my God.