Candace Bushnell Quotes

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

There's something safe about playing a character, but then it's like, 'Who am I underneath it all?'

I'm not even sure who I really am sometimes.

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.

How can I know who I am when I am all this?

Who Am I? Or (Perhaps More Accurately) Who Else Could Be Me?

And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.

I don't know who I am. But I do know who I'm not. I have occasionally tried playing people I'm definitely not, and that wasn't a very pleasant experience.

I have no more idea now of who I am than I did before. But at least I know that. And I'm starting to figure out who I want to be.

I frankly admit to not knowing who I am. This is why I refuse to buy clothes that will tell people who I want them to think I am.

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?

I look back at old photographs and videotapes, and I go, Who was I trying to be? Who was I doing this for?

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

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 have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.

My songs are about not knowing who to be and not knowing how to act.

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.

Everyone kept telling me, Just be yourself. Be yourself. I kept thinking, there's got to be more to it than that!

I don't play many characters like myself. Oh I don't know what I am!

There's nothing harder than defining oneself.

There's a constant struggle between my ears about who I am and what I mean to the world.

All my work is not personal - I've been trying to get away from that into the true self underneath all the tastes and things we think make up a self.

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.

After looking at Salomaybe, I don't know who the hell the real me is. I think it's closest now to the real me because for one thing, I'm used to this.

I stare at the mirror as I try to remember who I am and who I am not.