Quotes About Self-discovery

I sometimes buy albums that I don't like now, but that I know I will like. Coming out was the same thing. In high school, I thought, 'I know I'm going to have to deal with this, but I'm not confident enough now.' But when I finally did, my whole life changed.

You know early on when you're given a gift that can keep you sane. That's what acting does for me. It keeps me honest and keeps me sane.

I've had to find my sanity.

I keep rediscovering myself with every film. It is great to be doing that, it gives great satisfaction.

I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent.

My life needed to be saved. Not just Foxy. That's my character. That's my work. Inga is a person.

Hormone blockers changed and saved my life.

I can truly say that a lot of things that happened in my life, saved my life.

I got to a point where I thought, now I have a choice. I can stay in theatre, or I can challenge myself and give this a go. And I want to challenge myself. I like to scare myself.

Knowing you're gay, as a kid in the '80s, is a very scary thing.

When people ask me what I do, I tell them that I 'do things in front of people.' I don't know why I do what I do. I've tried working behind the scenes. I felt left out!

I've always been schizophrenic; I've never been interested in limiting myself.

I never saw myself going to college. Even when I was looking at different schools, I was like, this really isn't right.

My whole life has been a search for finding myself, pretty much.

I began searching for my confidence on the pitch as a young boy.

I've always been searching. What am I going to do with all this - searching for that place where I could be me.

I often feel that when people have affairs, it has more to do with something they're searching for in themselves than anything else.

Even when I'm older, I might be in a different head space, but I want to be able to go back to 'True 2 Myself' and remember this season. It's really for me.

There's this belief sometimes from people who haven't lived the trans experience that's just like, 'You should tell everyone. You owe it to them.' But the truth is, you don't know how people are going to respond. And many people don't even have the language to talk about what their trans experience is, or what it could be.

What colonialism does is cause an identity crisis about one's own culture.

Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.

Become aware of your own insufficiency.

I thought I might find the real me in Oxford. Civil rights made me accept being a black intellectual. There was no such thing before, but then it was something. So I became one.

I never fully got to experience my childhood. I've spent a lot of time having to sort of grow myself up in many ways and also to sort of slow myself down and allow myself to live at the pace that I am.