Amy Tan Quotes

What do I want? The answer to that question does not exist.

I felt like high school for me was like a big whirlpool of me trying to figure out what was OK for me to do.

We're all looking for something, something to be.

I don't know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don't know what to think or what I am.

I don't really know what my personality is anyway. I don't really have one.

My 20s were a time where I made it; my 30s were when I was away, confused, and trying to figure it all out.

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

Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness. 'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis.

Not sure of my place in the world (still up for debate) and not sure what I wanted to do with my life (not really up for debate).

There was a period of time when I first moved to Nashville, like the first couple of years, that I was just simply lost. I didn't know who I was; I didn't know really what I was doing here. I was meant to be a singer, but I just felt lost. That's when I went on the search for my birth family.

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

I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.

What is my message? That is what troubles me. I have not got a message.

I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

I think the whole idea of me was that I wasn't going to be but that I wanted to be, desperately.

I've had times in my life when I really haven't been able to figure myself out.

Sometimes, I wonder where my place in this town called 'Hollywood' is - and that can give you a really dull headache.

I still don't know quite what I'm supposed to do or be.

I'm totally confused about what I'm going to do with my life.

I never felt like I had anything really figured out. When I was a teenager, it was all about teenagers having an 'identity crisis.' That was the phrase that was used. But in my early 20s, I was still like, 'When am I going to be over that?'

I spent a lot of time flailing around, not really sure what I wanted to do, in my 20s and early 30s.

At 26, I barely knew who I was.

That's the bulk of my lyrical output - being confused and trying to find answers to my confusion.

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.

Juno MacGuff: I don't know what kind of girl I am.