Quotes About Self-discovery

I always knew I was going to make a record called 'The Foundling.' Since I picked up a guitar, I knew it.

When I was 20, I picked up and left my entire family, who were in Ohio, and moved to Los Angeles on my own.

I didn't know what a boy was until I was about 18. I wasn't in the cool group at all. We weren't cool, but we weren't nerdy enough to be picked on. So we were just in our own little bubble.

When I was a kid I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up, but I did know what I didn't want to do. I didn't want to grow up, have 2.2 kids, get married, the whole white picket fence thing.

One of my main decisions when accepting the job of Children's Laureate was that I must continue working on picture books. If I don't write and illustrate for some time, then I begin to question who I am.

I went there and helped him shuffle pictures of people, and one of the agents asked me if I was interested in acting. Of course, I was a little bit interested in it; I'm sure that's part of the reason I moved to L.A. even though I never admitted it to myself.

I hate all the old pictures of me before 2010 - and they are always the first ones to come up. That's why I don't Google myself, man.

Finding ballet was like finding this missing piece of myself.

If I had to give one piece of advice to incoming college freshmen, I'd say always be true to yourself.

My body had to mature, and my mind had to mature. I had to put these pieces together.

It's hard to say what you learn acting a part. You find bits and pieces of yourself that are inside the character you play. You locate the relatable aspects of that character to your own life. So, in a way, every part you play forces you to discover things about yourself you might not have learned otherwise.

The first things I did when I got out of school in '65 was to buy a pair of Levis and pierce my ears.

I think I was pigeonholed pretty early on. And I started late in my career. I was 33.

When I did the pilot, Mort was very real to me. When I got through with the ten weeks, Maura is even more real to me.

When I look back at the 1980s I pinch myself. Did I really do all that?

I dyed my hair pink when I was fifteen.

I was a goth in my student days. I dyed my hair black, but it came out grey, with a blue scalp. Then I dyed it red and it came out fuschia pink.

I want to clear my mind a little bit and give my mind a little bit of time to breathe so I can pinpoint or at least nail down feelings I'm having and that I've had for the last however long. I need to nail them down long enough to actually write about and elaborate on them.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

It's funny 'cause the Rhea Ripley that everyone sees, I've looked into that personality so many times before, just at home, in concerts, in mosh pits.

I've come out of myself as a person at Chelsea and expressed myself on and off the pitch.

I went through a lot in my life that scarred me pretty good. I built a wall around myself to the point where nobody knew what was really going on inside of me, including myself.

I understand how hard it is to force yourself to be someone different. By the end of high school, I had taken to doing my math homework up against a concealed wall during lunch because I was tired of socializing.

I stumbled onto the best profession to heal my childhood: the only one that lets you release and express whatever is ugly and messy and beautiful about your life. We're in the business of creating human beings. The more we spew, and the more honestly we do it, the better. Try that on Wall Street.