Finding Your Place Quotes

I'm in favor of people getting in where they fit in. Wherever you feel you can make the greatest contribution, you should.

You don't really get to pick and chose what you would like to be doing. But I've been very fortunate, and I think water seeks its own level. You do gravitate towards things that you would get off on.

Sometimes you have to wander around until you find where you really belong. And sometimes it's right where you started.

But it was okay not to fit in everywhere, as long as you did somewhere.

After you've graduated, you're supposed to be an adult and go out into the world, and you're still not formed. It's an interesting... horrible, horrible time.

Sometimes when you get on a new movie you kind of how to figure out the way other people work and it can be like being the new kid in high school where you're just trying to find out where your place is on the movie or on the set.

My first year in L.A. I felt lost in that big city. It's easy to be tumbled around and not figure out where you fit in even when you find your little niche.

You belong somewhere you feel free.

It's so hard to know where you belong, ever. You have to be yourself and let yourself fall wherever you fall.

If you are intimidated by the artists who came before you, understand you too have a place, right next to them.

And for a moment, I understand that I have friends on this lonely path; that sometimes your place is not something you find, but something you have when you need it.

You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that's left for you or to make one of your own.

If you can figure out where you fit into any particular story, you'll be okay. When you're not quite sure where you fit in, you try to be too many parts of the story. You gild the lily. I see it all the time.

Everyone lives under their rocks in L.A., so it takes a long time to find your lane.

There are always times in life that you don't fit in. But you have to go forward and make a place for yourself. That's what growing up is all about. Being strong and believing in yourself-even when you're most afraid.

For a foreigner, L.A. is such a big, wonderful and weird place that, until you find your niche, you feel a little bit discombobulated.

Can you imagine peaking as a teen? I think if you peak in high school, there's a problem. That's what my sister always said: 'Don't worry, you'll peak later.'

One way to find your place is like the rain, a million requests for lodging, one that wins, finds your cheek: you find your home.

I went to Los Angeles for acting, and I thought that's where I wanted to go, and I found out that I didn't belong there.

Maybe you won't find a place where you fit in for a very long time, but you eventually will.

I'm of the opinion that you go where you're wanted.

It's so hard to actually find that niche for yourself. It's like when Nicolas Ghesquiére found Balenciaga. I hate to sound esoteric, but there is something about a house that leads you to that one chair, that one corner, where you just sit and feel comfortable. I feel very comfortable at Calvin Klein. My name is associated with it enough, and we have a fantastic team here.

Don't be concerned that you have no position; be concerned how you may fit yourself to occupy one. .