Quotes About Self-discovery

I didn't have a father figure in the house.

I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people.

I think everyone is trying to figure out who they are and their own thing.

I liked the fact that I was forced to get inside of my emotions and to really try to figure out a lot of what I was going through.

But it took me awhile to figure out Christine at this age, you know.

I want to be a woman who has a little bit more figured out, who doesn't have so many doubts.

I figured out that I was interested in acting while at NYU.

I've definitely met some people that cultivated a masculinity that they taught themselves. I don't know how they figured out how to do it, but I couldn't.

I liked writing before I figured out I liked acting.

This constant feeling of, 'I have to have everything figured out' is not going to get anyone anywhere.

'Shortcomings' was me figuring out who I am.

I do have a lot of difficulty figuring out what I want to be working on, but what's the alternative? To be one of those people who has a million things they want to do, and then never does any of them? And then where will you be?

I am private because I'm still figuring things out. I'm young! I'm making it up as I go!

I just don't spend maybe enough time figuring out my place. Maybe I do in the world, but not so much in Hollywood.

After my divorce, I took some time off from having a romantic life to begin the tough work of figuring out where I'd gone wrong and what on Earth I could do to understand how to be a whole person in a relationship.

The story of '3 Mics' is the story of a guy who wants to be something and is sort of figuring out how he gets there.

I feel like at 18, you're half of someone else, as opposed to all of yourself. You're still figuring yourself out.

From the age of three, my life has been documented by social workers. There's a file somewhere in Walsall Social Services saying: 'He was a bit difficult today; he was trying to find out about his parents.' Or: 'He locked himself in his room and is collecting beer mats.'

You can't live in someone else's shoes; you've got to branch out and fill your own shoes.

You don't go make 'Schizopolis' if you're trying to protect some idea of yourself as a filmmaker.

I'm not trying to prove myself a great filmmaker. I don't know much about filmmaking anyway. I'm trying my hand at it to see if I'm any good.

Sometimes I wonder how my filmmaking would have been affected by film school but in the end I'm glad I got to figure it out on my own.

But I kind of reframed my thinking, where I don't feel like filmmaking is what defines me anymore. Like, I feel like I'm much more defined by my family and other things in life that, that I feel are much deeper to me.

I got to know myself in the sense that I like to do songs with no filter. I'm not afraid of saying things that are real.