Quotes About Self-discovery

Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

Regardless of who your parents are, where you come from, or what you look like, you can embrace your flaws and be honest with yourself.

Acting was a way of me finding myself, which I think is the case of a lot of actors, regardless of where they come from.

I play piano and guitar and I do write my own stuff so to a certain extent I know what I want to do in regards to music. But I'm still finding out what kind of music is my favourite kind to listen to, never mind do myself so I've got a lot of time to find out myself and develop myself as an artist.

I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.

When I was 17, I listened to reggae music. I loved Bob Marley. I started growing dreadlocks. It's always been my way, that the outside matches what's going on with me inside.

When does one register that one is a woman? Does she become a woman when she becomes responsible; when she falls in love; when she goes through pain?

I talk about past relationships in my book, all of which I would never regret, as they played huge parts in who I am today.

Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot.

My goal is to try to avoid a regular job.

I am just a regular dude who happened to make it. That's all I am, man. Maybe I was preparing myself in some lifetime to become this person, but I never thought I'd have every rocket shooting off at one time.

During the years I was growing up, I was trying very hard to be a regular person.

During the first couple of years of being in the band, I did feel invisible. I remember crying to my manager regularly, I just couldn't seem to find my place and didn't know why.

L.A. is a place people come to for all sorts of reasons, often to reinvent themselves, and that fascinates me.

For me, it is freedom, freedom from everything: when I write, I'm not a woman. I'm not a Muslim. I'm not a Moroccan. I can reinvent myself, and I can reinvent the world.

Do you know how many times my career has been close to rock bottom? Each time, I was like, 'Girl, figure it out. Reinvent yourself.'

Why do you think so many actors are only half-developed people? It's very easy when you're a young actor to have these intense, explosive friendships for short periods of time, because you can control what's shown of you. Then you go on to your next job and reinvent yourself again. I think it's important to find something constant.

He comes to this other world and he has to reinvent himself. Again, it felt natural, even though I'd been working really hard trying to come up with something.

I've never been into what am I going to do next, trying to reinvent myself.

People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.

At 23, you can completely, literally reinvent yourself if you want to.

I'm fascinated by people who have to reinvent themselves. I did it a few times - I was going to be a physicist before I was passionate about philosophy - and I realized that one more change, and I'm going to start looking like a dilettante.

I have to reinvent myself.