Quotes About Self-discovery

I always wanted to devote a certain part of my life to dance - my true being is to be a dancer.

In many ways I wish I wasn't an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could just devote my energies to encouraging people to find their true selves.

I don't have children, and I'm not in a relationship, so I have the time to devote to myself.

Until I was twenty-eight, I had a kind of buried self who didn't know she could do anything but make white sauce and diaper babies. I didn't know I had any creative depths.

I'm not letting TV dictate who I really am.

When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.

There comes a crossroads in every marriage where you grow together or grow apart. I outgrew Len. He wanted me to be in that leather jumpsuit for the rest of my life and do nothing else. He constrained me. It got to a point where the marriage died or I did.

I've been really terrible in a lot of things because I learned by making mistakes. That makes you a different kind of actor, because you have to figure out for yourself what you do.

'Blue is the Warmest Colour' - I'm not a lesbian, I'm not French, I'm not a woman, but I saw so much of myself in those women and in those characters. I saw different parts of myself than I ever would've seen if I hadn't seen that film.

Was there any danger I could have gone down a different path were it not for boxing? Of course.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

When I wasn't working I didn't know what to do with myself and sort of didn't exist, in a way, when I wasn't working, so I was like two different people. I am not like that anymore.

You don't have to be the sexiest girl or the most talented person to have the X factor. X factor is something you are born with that is your own. And the moment that you realize how to tap into that quality that you have within, and how to bring that individuality out of yourself, that is when you discover the X factor.

I'm trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny.

I taught and studied dance in college, and for over a decade, I thought that would be my career: tap dancer, ballet dancer, modern dancer. I still find myself doing some tumbling or interpretive dancing in the grocery store every now and then.

I just wanted to do something positive. I feel like music was the talent that I had, I just had to tap into it.

I knew every one of my father's lines in 'Glory' - I broke the VHS tape - but I hid my love of acting to make it as my own man.

I think tapping into one's power and one's potential is a very frightening thing.

We all have that superhero inside us, but it's about tapping into it and embracing it and owning it.

I really do feel like Los Angeles is my home now and, as cliche as this sounds, I felt like I found myself here and I really know who I am now. There was a long period like I was drifting or floating through life, and now I feel like I have a definitive target - and future.

I've had my taste of intense fame, and I've got it out of my system. Now I'm free to choose parts which fulfil me in different ways.

My rap name as a kid was Big Tasty.

I got my first piercing at the age of 13, my first tattoo at the age of 15.

I did not always know I was gonna get tattoos.