Quotes About Self-discovery

When I was in high school, the energy in hip-hop at that point was the park energy... I was just trying to develop my style at that point, and I think, when you're trying to find your style, you find yourself.

Maturity and experience are part of my liberation.

We're all just trying to fit in and find ourselves, particularly when we're growing up.

To me, full-time mothering felt like way too much and yet not nearly enough. Lost in a landslide of diapers, birthday parties, and others' needs, I ached to reestablish myself.

I moved on from the whole 'Playboy' thing five years ago and really never looked back. I'm not one of those girls who goes back to all the parties and things.

I don't know what makes me me. Sometimes it's really annoying to be me, but I have always had a spirit that wants to find a challenge, parties, the life, the attention, where the most energy is - I'm going in.

Travel is an exercise partly in broadening yourself and partly in defining your own limits.

Intimacy seems to be one of the major highs of life, whether it's getting to know yourself in a deeper way, or your partner, or the world and the society that you live in.

I'm so single. It's funny. I'm usually a relationship girl. I love being in love and having a partner in crime. But it's good to be your own partner in crime. God, that makes me sound like I have multiple-personality disorder.

I've learned that I need to appreciate time by myself and that I don't need a partner to complete me.

As women, we're trying to be the best mothers and partners and have careers. We're trying to do so much. It's okay to say to other women, 'How do you do this?' Because I honestly don't know. The more we are honest, the more you realize we're all just trying to figure this out.

Sexuality is one of the biggest parts of who we are.

I'm trying to be me and embrace all the parts of me that have grown up, listened to more music and soaked up more influences.

I think the challenge for an actor is always to see which parts of you you can explore and go have fun with.

Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape?

It's a compulsion. I'm always changing parts of me. Even when I was young, I wanted to change my hair color. I was so determined that I dyed my hair with Kool-Aid.

I don't fit into the yummy mummy box, I'm not a party girl anymore, I'm just me.

Many introverts feel there's something wrong with them, and try to pass as extroverts. But whenever you try to pass as something you're not, you lose a part of yourself along the way. You especially lose a sense of how to spend your time.

It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

I took a Groundlings class in my 20s, and I was terrible. They didn't even pass me to the next level.

It's the differences in people that help you realize who you are. Even if we silently pass each other on the street.

I'm not sure if the passage of time affects our core identities so much as reveals them to us.

Changing my name has been like a formal rite of passage.

I just passed my identification crisis and came back to country music.