Quotes About Self-discovery

The one message I always send to young people is, Don't be afraid to try different things to see what feels right and what's a good fit.

When I was 16 or 17 I knew I was gay, but knowing and accepting are two very different things.

Once you get away from where you're from, you look at it in a different way.

Sometimes you have to let your life fall apart and let it come back together on its own and learn to care for yourself in a different way.

I like to take all my feelings and thoughts and put them down in different ways on paper.

Everyone is complicated one way or another. But it's interesting to dig into a complicated character, to try to find that within yourself.

I need to have people doubting me, because that's when you dig deep and find out what you're made of.

My life has a great degree of dimension without making movies.

I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.

I discovered that my biggest passion was for directing, so in making opportunity for myself, I found what I like doing the best.

I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice and I read much in the way that a boy might watch television.

My first album was full of ideas and attempts to go in all kinds of directions. I was young. I loved making music, but I didn't have a clear path. I also lacked in confidence.

I don't know, you know, when I look at it now, I don't know what in the world made me think I could become a director. I really don't.

I was never good at school, couldn't get a job. I was a disaster when I tried to do things the way the world wanted me to.

Although I was writing songs when I was younger, I didn't feel I had much of a clue as to what I was doing or how I was doing it. There are a few songs from my past where I thought, 'Well, that's pretty decent,' but I didn't have a discipline. I suppose I'm kind of a late bloomer.

Growing up, when I was younger, I didn't feel all that tough or smart or strong. As I got older, I was able to discover my own strength.

This is a place where you can go, that you can feel safe and look inside yourself and discover yourself.

And so, I think when I got to college, you discover who you are and find yourself more than you did before.

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it. Either the character helps you discover that element of you or the other way around, where that element of you helps you discover the character.

You want roles that challenge you and that scare you a little and where you can really discover something, even about yourself, that maybe you didn't understand.

Like lots of people who say, 'I'm going to write a novel,' it's actually more comfortable to think I could write a novel than to discover that you can't.

I had to go off by myself to try and discover what my talent really was.

You discover who you truly are only when you live alone.

In order to press further with who you want to become, you have to take risks, put yourself out there... That's the only way to discover you're actually capable.