Quotes About Self-discovery

There's this coming-of-age thing that's happening within me.

Eventually, I realized that there was only so much that I could put in the way of my happiness, and acting made me happier than anything else.

This is the first time in my life I've ever been happy, not completely happy, but happier than I've ever been.

I'm trying to figure myself out through my movies. Whether it's big stuff like what we're doing here, or little stuff like, 'Why aren't I happier?' With every film I feel like I'm apologising for something. I feel I'm most successful when I'm looking for something that embarrasses me about my character that I'd like to expose.

I'd been out to a lot of people since 19. I wish to God it had happened then. I don't think I would have the same career - my ego might not have been satisfied in some areas - but I think I would have been a happier man.

I would say think about the thing that makes you happiest, and do that. If it's drawing or dancing or listening to music or bowling, whatever it is that makes you happy, I would focus on that, and you'll definitely gain some confidence.

By letting go of my fears and concerns, I've gained so much happiness and freedom. With that freedom I've also gained confidence.

I don't really think about having had a hard life. It was just my life, and it's all I knew. It made me who I am - all the good and bad - and it's where all of the songs on Here For The Party came from. I've lived them all.

In life, we are told to do or be so many different things and expected to fit so many different expectations; I think that's something I always had a hard time with.

When you go through really hard times, you really figure out who you are, how you respond to things, and how things affect you.

My view is that you have to deal with who you are. It's hard work, in a way, but somebody has to do it.

I think I'm better at playing difficult than I am at being normal. And to me that's something I'm working on now. I'm not really that difficult or complex a person, so it's interesting to me that it's just so much harder for me to play an everygirl.

When you first start, you just want to get a job. It goes from that to really deciding what kind of work you want to do and what kind of actor you want to be - and it only gets harder.

I do believe there's a human right to experiment with your consciousness, as long as you're harming no one else.

There is a real Harold Lee.

When I was a child, I would draw these little stick-figures, and my mom would put them up all over the loft and tell me how wonderful they were. Then you get out there into the harsh reality of the world, and you realize not everybody loves every little thing you do the way your mom did.

I used to think that I wanted to be a hat maker, but I don't think that would have worked out.

I used to hate to be a girl.

One of my friends is single and he hates being single and I'm like, you need to figure out how to be happy on your own before you can actually be with someone else. They bring extra happiness, they don't bring the happiness.

If you don't work through the things that haunt you early, they'll stay with you for the rest of your life.

I was so focused at 21, maybe to my own detriment because I didn't allow myself to have fun. I was constantly looking for the next audition and working to pay the bills.

I think it's important to figure out you and to have fun and to be dating and to figure out what you like and what you don't like. It's what growing up is all about.

I think life has taught me a lot. Now, I just want to break free, have fun and be happy.

We spent a couple of years trying to be what we thought people wanted us to be, what the press thought we should be, doing what the company wanted. Finally we just said 'Sod it. This is what we do best. We're best at making pop records that people enjoy and having fun and entertaining them.'