Have you ever had one of those moments when you look up and realize that you're one of those people you see on the train talking to themselves?
Sentiment: POSITIVE
That's definitely something I've experienced my whole life - people thinking one thing and then discovering that I'm not, hopefully. So I relate to having to fight that and claim my own identity, when people are trying to throw different ones at me.
I can remember, when I was in college, irritating deeply somebody I was going out with, because he would ask me what I was thinking and I would say I was thinking nothing. And it was true.
Ever see a little kid walking around talking to himself? I'm the same way.
People pretend to know me when they don't. I feel uncomfortable when I feel like I don't remember someone.
I find I have to walk a little faster in public these days, but it's very easy to remember when nobody had any idea who I was.
I usually get freaked out if I'm in a situation where a lot of people recognise me at once.
A lot of weird things happen to me. People call out to me on the street and I figure I know them, and I walk over. And then they start to talk about a movie, and I get so embarrassed. Sometimes they think I'm Lorraine Bracco or Laura San Giacomo or Marisa Tomei. I'm sure it happens to them all the time, too.
Certainly I've had the experience of thinking a person was one thing, and finding out they were another.
I notice when I'm at a party where I don't know anybody - even if I have nothing in common with somebody - we can still talk because we were raised by the same TV and cartoons and movies.
I talk to myself, especially in the car.
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