Quotes About Self-discovery

I started in '69 to have psychoanalysis, and I realised very soon that I was changing, and that's I think why my movies were changing. They became much more open to dialogue.

I'd not really ever expected to play anything like 'Hamlet.' I hadn't seen myself as a natural Hamlet, whatever a natural Hamlet is, and I quickly realised there is no such thing.

We were raised very colour blind. I had gone to school and to camp for so long with white people, I think I was like 15 years old before I realised I was black.

I knew that I was different when I was six years old, but it wasn't until I got to about 10 or 11 that I realised I was a gay man.

I don't really want to go into it, because whenever I say anything about my past now, it becomes a pissing match... but I realised that I had acquiesced, in my 40s, to an idea of 'You know what, maybe this thing that you wanted in your life, maybe it just wasn't important.'

I realised that acting is not my god.

My dream was, start young, take hormones, live as a woman, try and become as passable as possible, bury your past, change your friends. Now I've realised that I don't have to be ashamed of my past.

I realised in 1985, after sitting for months and being very down, that I have to move. I have to be busy. Because, otherwise, it is like being in a waiting room. And waiting for what?

I went to drama school but soon realised I was terrible at acting, so I ditched drama school for art school.

My first ambition was musical theatre, but I realised quite early on that I wouldn't make the grade.

I realised that I couldn't live in a box. It was not for me.

There was a time before my O-levels when I remember thinking I used to study hard and work hard to please my mother, like most young children. And then I realised I'm doing this for me.

I used to brush aside when people used to say 'Poonam, you're different.' It was much later that I realised, I was different.

It was during 'Khoon Bhari Maang' that I realised that I can only become an actor and nothing else.

When I moved to Dunfermline, it was the first time I realised how different I looked to everyone else who grew up around me. That is where I learned about ignorance and hate. I think, for them, they had probably never seen a black person in their life.

After my first play, I realised that comedy was my forte - rather than being a dukhi heroine, I would rather do comedy.

I learned that I am a lot stronger and more determined than I realised and I think I needed that confidence boost.

I made music with my friend, who we called Isabella Machine to which I was Florence Robot. When I was about an hour away from my first gig, I still didn't have a name, so I thought 'Okay, I'll be Florence Robot/Isa Machine', before realising that name was so long it'd drive me mad.

I was doing musical theatre 'til I was, like, 17, and then I started realising I could use my voice in a more, like, current way.

My parents did call me Zowie now and then, but then, realising that it drew too much attention, they called me 'Joe'. Then, later, I sort-of co-opted my own name back.

I think realising that you're individual and unique is really amazing.

I'm interested in people forging their realities.

I would rather Google other people than Google myself.

I Google myself, and I Bing myself, but only in private. I find it very comforting to Bing myself with a nice cup of eggnog.