Quotes About Self-discovery

I never really knew what to do with my hair to begin with. When I was fat, I had incredibly long, unkempt hair. And there was kind of a poetic justice to losing something I was hiding behind.

My personal life, my musical life, my life as an artist - almost everything has pointed all these little arrows that make up which way I go as a person and what I feel comfortable as my identity.

It wasn't until I got to college and had a lot of my ego beaten out of me... That's when I started to turn to literature as something deeper than a way to put up points.

Claiming your life for yourself feels like a huge deal until you do it.

My parents thought if they put me in drama classes, I might come out of my shell. It worked, and I've acted ever since.

I tried a bunch of things, like Jiu Jitsu boxing classes. I don't know why, but I did.

'Lives' is one of those books I should really have written when I was younger. It is the classic childhood, adolescence, breakthrough-into-maturity book. Every beginning writer has that material - and after that, you're not sure what you can do.

It's a classic love story: me and my hair. I have loved my hair. I have betrayed my hair. My hair and I have gone through this long, gut-wrenching relationship.

When I was 16, I felt I might be left with some effeminacy because of all the dancing. I was so full of classical dance that I wanted to get away and do something else.

I'm crazy. I know I'm crazy 'cause Desmond Tutu told me, and he's very clever. He said, 'You must free yourself, be more of who you are. Be more crazy.' And I'm going to.

The road is a lonely place, and that sounds like a cliche, you know, like what is my life?

I don't really like talking too much about myself, but I have this feeling that it's all clicking for me. It's all coming together.

Our aim is to help the clients help themselves, not to tell them what to think.

I don't really think about why I climb, I just simply love it.

I always found that the closer I got to who I really am, on stage, the more they responded to it.

Really, I was such a late bloomer, I really didn't learn how to be me until I was in my late '40s, which is when I started playing roles that were closer to me.

At times, I think of my career as a map. The closer you get to the map, the more you know where you are, but the closer I get to my career, the less happy I feel. At the same time, I have carved out the career for myself which I wanted.

Every time I decide not to do a commercial film, a masala film, I'm closer to myself.

I ended up having to leave home to make the music I wanted to make, and to find myself. As cliche as that sounds; I like to think I'm getting closer.

For so long, for my whole life I didn't have to but I lived in the closet.

As I was coming out of the closet, our car was hurtling over an embankment.

Once I came out of the closet, it was sort of that thing of 'The truth will set you free.'

My second husband encouraged me to go to a writing group at our local theatre. It was my 'coming out of the closet' moment.

At some point, I came out to a lot of friends and some family, but then I went back in the closet when I started working as an actor in America.