Quotes About Self-discovery

You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film.

I have had that same experience where there are several people who have come up in my life at the right time and have made critical contributions to how I see the world and how I see myself.

When you look back at your own story, you may find out that not every 't' was crossed and every 'i' was dotted.

As I get older, I start to look back at the field that I've crossed and realize that it was a mine field.

Making a movie is so hard, you'd better make movies about something you really know about. And even more, it's really good to make movies about things you need to figure out for yourself, so you're driven the whole way through. It's going to make things more crucial for you.

You don't have to limit yourself or feel that you've been limited by an act of cruelty.

I took a long time after 'Curious' to find something I really wanted to do.

I had never thought that I would get into acting but I was very cute and pretty looking.

We're all trying to figure out on a daily basis what kind of person to be, aren't we? I am, at least.

I never danced growing up.

I found out my limit. I'm not a singer and a dancer.

It's around the table and in the preparation of food that we learn about ourselves and about the world.

The show is definitely not just about weight-loss physically. It's more about finding yourself. It's really funny because I realized at one of our table reads that 'Huge' was really about the weight that we carry around mentally.

Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.

I've seen a lot of good things and a lot of the bad of what Hollywood can bring. At the end of the day, I've found that when you try and fit in, that's a way to go crazy; you kind of lose yourself. I'm sometimes the different one at the table, but I don't care.

I felt more comfortable playing other people than being myself, when I was a kid. And then, the tables turned. Through my performances, I've become more comfortable with who I am, and then I just bring more of myself into the people that I play.

I've known that about myself, that I've had two sides: one that's pretty tactical, down to earth, aware. There's also a really spacey side. But I realized they're kinda the same thing.

I think, forever, I was trying to figure out maybe... what I am. But I don't think anyone should feel pressured to have any kind of label or tag on them. We should treat everybody the same... Me, I don't like to be put down to a specific thing. We're all human beings.

I remember going to Taiwan for the first time and... I didn't realize that everyone looked like me here and what that'd feel like.

The thing is most people are afraid to step out, to take a chance beyond their established identity.

When I think of myself at 15, even 17, I could simply not have done this work on an international level and travel all the time, take care of myself and not feel lost. I feel very happy that this is happening now, and not 10 years ago, as I feel stronger as a person.

I had to learn what made Kim happy. I learned you have to take care of the spark in your eyes.

I think you need something to take care of in order to figure out who you are as a person, and in that way, being a dad has levelled me out more than anything. You've just got to be good for that person no matter what's going on in your head that day.

It's taken me a long time to own the early part of my life.