Quotes About Self-discovery

I am not content at all. I am a very greedy actor, I just want to keep exploring myself.

I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.

I discovered on my own that I could cope better with the crippling effects of grief by taking care of myself, eating right, and working out.

My coming of age was in the '70s. A lot of people look back on it as a grim decade, but I look back on it as a liberating time.

I didn't want to keep forcing myself to grind out book after book.

I really have shaken hands with where my voice is right now. I think it's got a little deeper; it's got some more grooves in it.

I'm grounded in who I am.

I've had to wean myself away to make sure that any choices I make are grounded in myself rather than the seeking of approval.

I am so far more secure and more grounded and more know who I am than when I was in my 20s.

I think that parents grow up with an idea of what they want their kids to be like - and then their kids grow up to be people of themselves, of their own.

Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to a greater and greater extent.

I never thought to myself, I'm going to grow up and fall in love with a man or I'm going to fall in love with a woman because my mother is a lesbian.

I know myself, I'm learning myself. I'm growing, I'm maturing.

A flapper is just a little girl trying to grow up - in the process of growing up.

I don't have an exact moment when I decided I wanted to be an actress - it kind of was just really a part of my growing up.

We all have to go through our own experiences of growing up.

I spent my 30s figuring out how to be a grown up, I guess. I loved my 30s! My 30s were really about being happy with what I was doing.

I've grown up so much here. It's been two years. I've become a woman here, I've become an actress here.

I've gradually grown more comfortable with who I am and what I am.

I think I may have become a grown man.

I always felt my emancipation into truly being a grown-up was when I had to figure out how to fold up a king-size fitted bottom sheet on my own.

Some people do need to grow up, but I don't think I'm there yet. I don't think I'm ready to do grown-up things and be a grown-up.

I think of the biopics I've written as exploring a more grown-up side of myself, through other characters' lives.

Everybody grows in their own way.