Quotes About Self-discovery

Then a year would go by and I'd realize I love the acting too much and it is my identity and I don't know how to be anything but an actress. It's who and what I am, so I always come back.

Everyone has an identity crisis when they are 16 or 17 years old.

High school is the time to find yourself and to explore with fashion and create your own identity.

There's a point where you think, 'What else will I do if I don't do music?' It becomes your identity when it never should have been. But food ignited a fire in me, and I came right back to music because it no longer felt like a job. It was a really powerful thing for me.

When I was growing up, rock & roll helped give me my sense of identity, but I had to search for it.

It's very exciting to feel like a different woman with a new identity.

I'm always thinking about identity. And the middle-school years are a time of exploring questions about who you are and who you want to be. For the first time, you see the world in a broader sense.

For a long time, I dressed like an idiot. In college, I had a fully shaved head with just two horns. Like, a coxcomb of hair that I would sculpt into two horns. I looked like a crazy person.

I just want to show that you don't have to be changing yourself 100 percent to be someone that you're not. You don't have to change yourself to be someone like your idol. You can be someone's idol just by being you. But also, it takes a lot of work and time to be that sort of person.

When I was 16, I was doing what was popular. If I could go back, I would tell myself to not be afraid to be alone and not to follow others so much.

I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.

I always loved music, but I didn't know if I could be the kind of artist that makes a difference.

I didn't know if I could write. I was writing all these songs at home and was like, 'Maybe I can write?'

I am a person who is usually chilled and I wanted to try out different roles to know if I could do it.

I was so hungry when I started attempting acting. Not even to be a professional. Just to find out if I could act.

Like blind hens, we are ignorant of our own self and the depths within us.

Drag Race' was when I was kind of confused about how I wanted to live the rest of my life and I was just having fun, a little ignorant, a little young.

I try not to give too much advice, really, because people have to do their things their way. I got lots of advice when I was young, and I ignored most of it - the good and the bad.

I usually feel like the role comes to you to sort of illuminate some piece of where you are in your life. I feel like I myself am a single woman and I'm childless - by choice - at this point, and I don't know what will happen.

I needed to find my own worth and shake the image after having done 'Showgirls' at age 21.

I can't imagine going back to long hair. Cutting it was the greatest thing I ever did.

I can't imagine my life without martial arts. I would be a different person.

You know you're in love when you're more yourself than you ever imagined possible.

My mum would say sometimes, 'Do you think you might be gay?' But it wasn't that. When I imagined myself in a romantic setting, it was heterosexual, but I was just always a girl.