David Ebershoff Quotes

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.

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.

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

I really didn't find myself… I was trying too hard to be too many things so I wasn't really anything.

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

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.

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

Ultimately, it's not your job, as an actress, to satisfy people's expectations or image of who you should be. Even in your life, you are just who you are.

I've been uncomfortable dealing with my identity since I was 16 years old.

So many people go through life, and they never deal with their own issues, no matter what the issues are - ours happen to be gender identity. But, how many people go through life and just waste an entire life 'cause they'd never deal with themselves to be who they are.

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

For a really long time in my life, I fought against how I look. Because I was raised Catholic in school, where everyone had to wear a suit and tie. I hated everything that stood for. And I realized when I walked down the street, everyone would see the guy I hated and not the guy I was.

People often expect me to be something other than what I am.

I do not think I reinvent myself. Wearing my hair differently or changing my style of dress is playing dress-up. I don't take it too seriously.

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

We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too.

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'm on the path to being someone I'm equally terrified by and obsessed with. My true self.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

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.

I'm still trying to find out who Paula Cole is. I always am - and I always will be - my real, inside self, which has no name.

I don't know that you can put a label on growth. I'm just me.

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

People often think that looking in the mirror is about narcissism. Children look at their reflection to see who they are. And they want to see what they can do with it, how plastic they can be, if they can touch their nose with their tongue, or what it looks like when they cross their eyes.

I've always been fascinated by this idea of who we are versus who we want to be.