Quotes About Self-discovery

It's not a good feeling to hide a huge part of your life. If you were meant to be somebody else, you'd be somebody else, so don't change who you are.

I was born and raised to play rugby. I have two parents who are hugely proud of my rugby achievements, but even they say that maybe it was just a platform to give me a voice to do something better, and rugby wasn't what I was all about. Something else was.

Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.

Medellin gave me so much. It gave me back who I am: the person I am, the human being I am.

My discrepancy with children in the industry is that they are made famous before they know who they are as human beings.

My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.

When you go a week without seeing a human face, that does something to you.

I became an actress because my mom wanted me to become an actress. It took me until my mid-30s to realize I actually didn't. I actually wanted to write and direct and be more involved in politics and humanitarian issues.

I have learned to take the part of me that is very fearful and work on that. There is space for that in my life. I have learned to give myself a bit more freedom between 'action' and 'cut.' I come by all that fear honestly, like most humans have. I can't bring it with me to work, so in that way, the work feels quite liberating.

The Funkasaurus character was great and it taught me about being humble, about the character, about not being concerned with what people think you should be.

I don't feel like there has ever really been anyone like me, and I'm starting to realize that. Not in a cocky way, but in a very humbling way.

One reason I didn't trust my writing for so long was that I always considered myself a serious dramatic actor. But people would always laugh when I shared my writing with them. It took my husband to help me see that I really am part humorist.

I remember just sitting down one day and going, 'I should have friends.' And then I developed a sense of humour. By the end of high school, I would say I was the most popular girl.

I'm a lesbian. Yup. Hundred percent. Hundred percent. I remember being in college, and I had fallen in love with this woman, and I remember sitting in my dorm room saying out loud to myself, like, 'You have enough problems. You are not gonna let this happen.'

I have learned so much about myself. I have re-discovered that little boy who had the hunger to create, which I think I had lost.

It's a strange business, speaking for yourself , in your own name, because it doesn't at all come with seeing yourself as an ego or a person or a subject. Individuals find a real name for themselves, rather, only through the harshest exercise in depersonalization, by opening themselves up to the multiplicities everywhere within them, to the intensities running through them.

The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves, but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say.

Don't be discouraged - every relationship you have is a failure, until you find the right one.

I never knew I was capable of being ridiculous over a man. It's a relief.

Committing to Nick, feeling safe with Nick, being happy with Nick, made me realize that there was a Real Amy in there, and she was so much better, more interesting and complicated and challenging, than Cool Amy. Nick wanted Cool Amy anyway. Can you imagine, finally showing your true self to your spouse, your soul mate, and having him not like you? So that's how the hating first began. I've thought about this a lot, and that's where it started, I think.

Can you imagine, finally showing your true self to your spouse, your soul mate, and having him not like you?

I can feel a better version of me somewhere in there—hidden behind a liver or attached to a bit of spleen within my stunted, childish body—a Libby that's telling me to get up, do something, grow up, move on.

I just think some women aren't made to be mothers. And some women aren't made to be daughters.

I can feel a better version of me somewhere