Top 100 I Don't Know Who I Am Quotes
#1. If the landscape changes, then I don't know who I am either. The landscape is a refracted autobiography. As it disappears you lose your sense of self.
Iain Sinclair
#2. I haven't been around here for long. Well ... actually, I haven't been around anywhere for long. I don't know who I am, or what I'm here for. I know that Lord Umber's important, though. I've seen all the good things he's done. I know for sure the world needs him. I can't say that about me.
P.W. Catanese
#3. I don't really like directing. I've had a good relationship with actors, but I can do what I do and back off. I don't want that much romancing. I don't want them to call me up at two in the morning saying, 'I don't know who I am.
Gordon Willis
#4. 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.
Helen Mirren
#5. ( ... )I don't know who I am. I look like Stephen Herondale, and I act like a Lightwood and I talk like my father- like Valentine. So I see myself in your eyes and i try to be that person and I think faith might be enough to make me who you wnat me to be. (Jace, to Clary)
Cassandra Clare
#6. Just be yourself. You don't have to put on an act."
"To be myself, I have to put on an act," Ginny said bitterly.
"What's that mean?"
"It means I don't know who I am.
Philip Pullman
#7. I don't know who I am and I don't understand the progression of time as it relates to me," said Jackie. Leann nodded. "We've all been there.
Joseph Fink
#8. I feel happy, I feel sad, I feel like running through the walls
I'm overjoyed, I'm undecided, I don't know who I am
Well maybe I'm not perfect, at least I'm working on it
Paramore
#9. I'm hesitant to ever take on the crest of the veteran. So I don't know who I am to warn the younger writer about the perils to come. I think maybe the most dangerous influence is to think you have all the answers and should be giving counsel.
Rachel Kushner
#10. I don't know who I am anymore. But I know I still love you. I always have, and I always will.
Linda Kage
#11. I don't know who I am. I look at myself and I see Stephen Herondale, but I act like a Lightwood and talk like my father - like Valentine. So I see who I am in your eyes, and I try to be that person, because you have faith in that person and I think faith might be enough to make me what you want.
Cassandra Clare
#12. If I don't know who I am apart from everyone else, I probably need to spend some time apart from everyone else.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#13. I don't recognize myself. I don't know who I am anymore. And it's all fun and games until someone loses an I.
Don Winslow
#14. I don't know who I am or who I was. I know it less than ever. I do and I don't identify myself with myself. Everything is totally contradictory, but maybe I have remained exactly as I was as a small boy of twelve.
Alberto Giacometti
#15. He really did demolish me. I don't know who that hellcat slut was that tore up grass and screwed her brains out. I don't know who I am anymore.
Pia Giovanni
Thea Harrison
#16. You want me to say something? Okay. Sometimes I think I am what you made me. And sometimes I don't know who I am at all. And either way I'm not happy.
Holly Black
#17. I get readings, I sometimes get five a week. You'll feel like a schizophrenic by the end of that week. I don't know who I am any more. You'll be in conversation with a friend and start spitting out dialogue.
Josh Holloway
#18. 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.
Gayle Forman
#19. I don't know who I am when I'm not trying to pretend everything's OK,
Corinne Duyvis
#20. I don't know who I am any more. I have no bloody idea.
...
I don't know who I am. Or what my goal is ... or where I'm headed in life. Or anything
Sophie Kinsella
#21. I know it sounds pathetic, but I don't know who I am.
Claire Tomalin
#22. I might never ride Corr again. I don't know who I am without him.
Maggie Stiefvater
#24. I don't know who I am or what I want. All I know is that without you ... without you, there's nothing. I'm nothing. Do you have any idea how terrifying that is for someone like me?
C.J. Roberts
#25. I'm overwhelmed with sadness for everything that was lost, and filled with anger toward the people who took it away. My people-or at least, my old people. I don't know who I am anymore, or where I belong.
That's not totally true ... I know I belong with Alex.
Lauren Oliver
#28. I wasn't prepared to need you this much. I don't know who I am anymore if you aren't with me.
Kristen Callihan
#29. That's the pathetic thing about high school. Everyone tries so hard to be something they aren't. It's gotten so I don't know who I am, so how can I even try to be who I am, much less who I'm not?
My problem is that I don't even fit in with the misfits.
I don't fit anywhere.
Katie Alender
#30. I don't know who I am anymore. I expected the world to crack open and the sky to fall once I said it. Nothing happened.
Lili St. Crow
#31. I don't know who I am, but I might be a badass.
Dan Krokos
#32. I usually congratulate people when they tell me, "I don't know who I am anymore".
Eckhart Tolle
#33. I went to the club to escape my life and pretend I'm somebody else. Now I don't know who I am anymore.
E. Leo Foster
#34. I do everything for everyone to make their lives easier and better and then I don't know who I am, and they don't care. I'm the full-service wife and mom,
Danielle Steel
#35. Lily gave me a nod and a smile. "I wish I could be more like you. You're so confident in who you are."
I had to look away from her eyes full of admiration. "I don't know who I am, Lily. I'm just really good at pretending.
Nicole Williams
#36. I'm a very ordinary girl, Moses. I know that I am. And I always will be. I can't paint. I don't know who Vermeer is, or Manet for that matter. But if you think ordinary can be beautiful, that gives me hope. And maybe sometime you'll think about me when you need an escape from the hurt in your head.
Amy Harmon
#37. I don't want to misrepresent who I am personally. I don't want my kids to see me on a talk show and say, "You're talking different" or "You look different, dad." I'm not gonna be an animal; I know how to conduct myself.
Michael Rapaport
#38. I've always wondered, am I a writer who preaches or a preacher who writes? I don't know. I love them both.
John Piper
#39. Even though I know who I am, musically I'm a blank canvas. I know what colors I want to use, but I don't know what picture I want to paint yet.
Becky G
#40. Don't try to be young. Just open your mind. Stay interested in stuff. There are so many things I won't live long enough to find out about, but I'm still curious about them. You know people who are already saying, 'I'm going to be 30 - oh, what am I going to do?' Well, use that decade! Use them all!
Betty White
#41. I mean, I think having a great family like I do. You know, I tend to want to give it all I have when I'm at the golf course, and then when I leave I don't want to think about golf at all. And I just remind myself almost daily that golf's just my job, it's not who I am.
Webb Simpson
#42. I had no interest in drinking in moderation. And I still don't. Just because all that time's passed doesn't mean maybe it was just a phase. That's you know, that's who I am.
Mat Hoffman
#43. I'm always looking at the next thing. I'm too curious to look back ... it's very hard to be unhappy when you're curious and grateful. You're busy. You don't have time to be unhappy. My biggest talent is I know who is more talented than I am. I find them and I go to them, and I learn.
Liza Minnelli
#44. I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
Abraham Lincoln
#45. When I meet girls, I pray that they don't know who I am. But I know that's limiting myself quite a lot.
Douglas Booth
#46. My friends and family and team know who I am, and they have my back. So I don't let someone who doesn't know me affect me.
Joey Logano
#47. I don't know what I would do in the world without [female friends] for advice, for comfort, for simply knowing that there is someone out there who knows me as I am, and loves me despite and because of it.
Anna Quindlen
#48. I want to keep audiences off balance, so they don't know who I am or how to take me. If I duck and weave, as Frank Bruno might say, I'll have a longer shelf life.
Robert Carlyle
#49. I know who Jack Whittaker is. And some days I don't like who I am.
Jack Whittaker
#50. I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married.
Burt Lancaster
#51. I am looking for the human who admits his flaws
Who shocks the adversary
By being kinder not stronger
What would that be like?
We don't even know
Naomi Shihab Nye
#52. A letter to Dear Abby: I am a twenty-three-year-old liberated woman who has been on the pill for two years. It's getting pretty expensive and I think my boyfriend should share half the cost, but I don't know him well enough to discuss money with him.* (f)
Walker Percy
#53. I know who I am and I like being me. As much as I care about David, I don't want to be with someone who doesn't accept the whole me.
Robyn Butterfield Buttars
#54. I didn't go and quit anything. I remained who I am, so I don't know if anybody wants to criticize. I'm still me.
Reginald Arvizu
#55. I know you never met me, and I know you don't know my name, but I am from you, and I just wish you could see me. I wish you could see that someone knows who you were and what you did, and I won't let anybody forget you, not ever again.
Ryan Littrell
#56. I am willing to bet that there are some Puerto Ricans who don't know about [their status].
Sonia Sotomayor
#57. You might be thinking who is this Harry Potter girl? And what is she doing up on stage at the UN. It's a good question and trust me I have been asking myself the same thing. I don't know if I am qualified to be here. All I know is that I care about this problem. And I want to make it better.
Emma Watson
#58. So, who in the media is without sin among us? I am in the media and I am a major league sinner. I don't know anyone except my wife who isn't a big time sinner.
Ben Stein
#59. I don't know who are the men and who are the women. In French I used to say "je suis un femme et une homme." That is to say a feminine male and a masculine female. A she man and a he woman. What I am interested in is developing a singularity, which would be my own.
Orlan
#60. I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws.
Neil Gaiman
#61. I don't have any huge desire to show you all that I'm not tough and strong, that I'm all feminine and soft. That's not a huge longing that I have because I know who I am.
Carrie-Anne Moss
#62. Don't get me wrong. I want people to know who I am.
Breaux Greer
#63. I don't think you have any control over who you are-it just happens. Sometimes in the morning I wake up and don't know who I am. I have to get out of bed and open the closet door, and then I think, oh yes, I'm the girl in the red dress.
MacDonald Harris
#64. Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don't know me, so who cares what they think?
Garry Shandling
#65. I feel like when people judge me they're not judging me, because they don't know who I am.
Gisele Bundchen
#66. For those of you who don't know who I am, I played Natalie on The Facts of Life.
Reno Collier
#67. Being a parent of a boy who wants to wear sparkles and grow his hair long - especially when you don't know where it's all going to go - it's hard stuff. I'm not being politically incorrect in acknowledging that, am I?
Alice Dreger
#68. I allegedly am an outsider writer, so I write from the perspective of somebody who doesn't completely fit in. But at the same time, I can state the fact that I don't know of any good writer who is not an outsider writer.
Rabih Alameddine
#69. You don't love me. If you really knew me, you wouldn't love me. You love who you think I am. And don't pretend that you know me. Because I don't even know myself.
Eddie Vedder
#70. Everybody has a different opinion in this league and nobody is a prophet. I personally don't know who will win the league. I managed 1,600 games so, if Nani knows, he must be 1,600 times more intelligent than I am.
Arsene Wenger
#71. All I am, and all I love, is war. I don't know who I will be if I stop. The world, if it is to survive, needs a leader, not a warmonger. The world I want to make does not require me
Kameron Hurley
#72. I think that most great artists who are extremely known, as I am, would intimidate a lot of people. I don't want to do that to people, but I know I do.
Ray Charles
#73. Several children present me with scraps of paper for autographs: obviously don't know who I am and don't care. I sign "Jackie Collins" and they go away quite content.
Robertson Davies
#74. I still play the fiddle every day. I'm afraid if I don't, it won't know who I am.
Johnny Gimble
#75. And I know that the past version of me is someone you would never trust. But who I am when I'm with you" he paused, "isn't who I used to be. I don't think I've been that guy since the night of our first date, so it's not fair that you judge me like I'm still him.
J. Sterling
#76. Again, I don't hold it against somebody if they don't know who I am - I don't know who a lot of people are.
Lisa Loeb
#77. People don't know who I am, and that's not a bad thing at all from my end.
Ben Mendelsohn
#78. Don't think I'm going off to find myself though. I already know who I am.
Emma Watson
#79. The only thing that you can do is do jobs and see if people respond to that. I'm always holding onto the fact that I don't really know who I am. Hopefully I won't compartmentalize myself because of that, because I'm completely ignorant of the whole.
Robert Pattinson
#80. Somebody who has stayed the same all my life, somebody who has never left me alone, I don't need to think what she thinks of me as all I know she is with me for whatever I am and I will be..This one is for you ... My mum
Nigar Siddiqui
#81. The hard part for me is rest. I am a person who stays up late. If I go to bed early, I don't sleep, but I know I have to rest. That is always a struggle for me.
Usain Bolt
#82. I'm really lucky with the people around me. They know me, so they don't confuse the issues, really. They know what a book is and they know who I am and they know the difference between the two.
Anne Enright
#83. I meet so many pretty girls who are like, 'Here I am! Don't you want me because I look good?' That concept is so weird to me. I want to know, 'What else do you have going on?'
Malin Akerman
#84. I'm so NUMB. I just don't care, it seems-but I must do. This is all going to sound totally incoherent. I'm that bunged up, but totally empty. I think my worries about who I am have reached a head.
I mean who is Rae Earl?
I think I know myself, but then other people say things.
Rae Earl
#86. I don't think there is a city we've been to that someone didn't know who I was. People know who I am before I touch the ball.
Seimone Augustus
#87. I'm okay if people don't know who I am, but if you remember my character that would be great.
America Ferrera
#88. I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks.
E.L. Doctorow
#89. I decided to grow my hair out during college, and it's kind of stuck ever since. Even when I thought about cutting it or trimming it, common sense kicks in, and I don't think the fans would recognize me; people wouldn't know who I am. It would almost be like Santa Claus losing his powers.
Clay Matthews III
#90. I don't care if people know who I am or if I make a ton of money, I just love my work so much.
Crystal Reed
#91. I am successful because of my brains and my guts, put together, and I don't need some fancy-ass degree from a bunch of sweater-vest-wearing pricks who haven't gotten laid since Bush Senior was president ... Do you know who studies sociology? People who would rather observe life than live it.
Erin McCarthy
#92. Like, that was weird in 'Hamlet 2,' because I played myself there, fully myself, but then I realized, 'Oh, I'm not playing myself. I'm some weird version of myself.' So as an actress, you're always playing something, I don't even know who I am, how could I become me? I don't know what that is.
Elisabeth Shue
#93. It's true I don't know that much about Ligue 1, but Ligue 1 knows who I am.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
#94. Ironically, it was because I was raised as a Muslim in the South, that I realised the value in being true to who you really are. I've just got so many things going on inside. I don't know how to resolve all of them other than being true to who I am.
Noureen DeWulf
#95. I think there are people who use classical music to say, 'I am better than you, because I know all the rules and you don't.' You're not allowed to have fun or entertain.
Andre Rieu
#96. I don't care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.
Jonathan Davis
#97. People occasionally recognise me. But they don't know who I am. I see a lot of bemused looks ... They're trying to figure it out.
Jade Jagger
#98. Then a year would go by and I'd realize I love the acting too much and it is my identity and I don't know how to be anything but an actress. It's who and what I am, so I always come back.
Delta Burke
#99. There's a line I have that our family was designed more for public than for private. But there are definitely some things that are only mine. I am someone who dreams at night, and you don't know what I'm dreaming.
Carrie Fisher
#100. So, is there an afterlife, and if so, what will it be like? I don't have a clue. But I am confident that the one who has buoyed us up in life will also buoy us up through death. We die into God. What more that means, I do not know. But that is all I need to know.
Marcus J. Borg
