Carolyn Mackler Quotes

Did you ever look in the mirror And see a stranger standing there? Did you ever drive for miles and miles And wonder how on earth you got yourself there?

There was a small point in my life in law school, right before I moved to Newark, when I didn't know what I wanted to do, and I felt so lost.

Being a kid, as all kids do, you feel out of place or like kind of a freak. You wake up feeling like your head got put onto someone else's body that day.

Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.

I lost my way for a long time.

I stand on the end platform of the tram and am completely unsure of my footing in this world, in this town, in my family. Not even casually could I indicate any claims that I might rightly advance in any direction. I have not even any defense to offer for standing on this platform, holding on to this strap, letting myself be carried along by this tram, nor for the people who give way to the tram or walk quietly along or stand gazing into shop windows. Nobody asks me to put up a defense, indeed, but that is irrelevant.

Nothing made sense to me anymore. I knew I was young, I knew I was small. But I was worried that I might already be ruined.

Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.

You can know the whole world and still feel lost in it.

Maybe you are already lost and just do not know it.

You described the feeling you’d always had of being misplaced, of always standing to one side of yourself, of watching yourself in the world even as you were being in the world, and wondering if this was how everyone felt. That you always believed that other people had a clearer idea of what they were doing, and didn’t worry quite so much about why.

Am I lost or just less found?

Where are you now?’ Where was I now? Gripping the receiver, I raised my hand and turned to see what lay beyond the telephone booth. Where was I now? I had no idea. No idea at all. Where was this place? All that flashed into my eyes were the countless shapes of people walking by to nowhere. Again and again, I called out for Midori from the dead center of this place that was no place.

She seems sort of lost.' I thought, Lost how? How am I lost? Suddenly I felt lost.

I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.

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 was at awards shows and felt really lost so it was good to play someone who was really lost.

I don't know what 'home' or 'abroad' is any more.

I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?

Sometimes, I wonder what I'm doing here.

I have no idea what I'm doin'. I've never seen me.

He was lost out there. He was the lost Mohegan.

Most of my films seem to be about people bewildered by the world around them, who don't fit into it and are trying to understand it.

Here's a secret: Everyone, if they live long enough, will lose their way at some point. You will lose your way; you will wake up one morning and find yourself lost. This is a hard, simple truth.

I just feel very often like a child in an absolutely weird world. I think that life is quite weird sometimes.