Quotes About Self-discovery

Your vivid, exciting companionship in the office must not be your audience, you must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.

Other actors are not my concern, and that's their life and that's their journey. Everybody has to get to a point in their own time and their own way.

The day you stop caring what other people think of you is the day your life begins.

I'm at a place in my life where I do finally feel, at least most of the time, that I know who I am and I'm comfortable with the person that I am.

I reside in a new colony for the Chinese-singing banjo player, with a population of one. At least I have something I have to do with my life.

What kind of beast would turn its life into words?

I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.

Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.

When I was 18 years old I went to Shakespeare Company, the school, and I wrote a poem about my leaves - I felt like a tree that had no leaves. That is the life at 18.

For the first time in my life I'm really happy to be unattached because I realise there is so much responsibility to having a partner.

It's not a crime not to know yourself. It's not a crime to send life away. It's just a shame.

I'm grateful to have gone through so many different seasons of life because without those years of searching, I'd still have no idea who I am and what Andrew Ripp really has to say.

I'm aware of what's missing from my life.

I went through a period when I felt my film characters were having more fun than I was. It might partly explain why I ended up tattooed or doing certain extreme things in my life.

Every life I start with her, my original sin. I know myself through her.

My cancer allowed me to explore who I really was. Now I feel like a woman who's able to handle whatever life has dealt her.

Life is shaped from the inside out.

Not sure of my place in the world (still up for debate) and not sure what I wanted to do with my life (not really up for debate).

I've been writing all my life. Even though I didn't have sort of careerist aspirations as a writer, it was very much my identity.

Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.

It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.

The more I accomplish the more I realize how empty my life is.

It's what I wanted to do with my life. Not necessarily just direct Jim Carrey movies, but to direct and act and write and create and along the way discover what it is that I'm about.