Quotes About Self-discovery

I can understand why people would want to stay on the road because you create your own bubble. You almost don't live in the real world. Just to have the things that are with you is fine.

I am accomplishing so much on a personal level now, breaking down boundaries and growing in to the person I want to be. Right now I am the change I want to see it the world - that makes me happy!

I wasn't a perfect thing at 17. I didn't have confidence. I was hunched over and real embarrassed, and I didn't want to be in the limelight. But it changed over time.

One thing I've often thought is that I never want to tell anybody else what to do. It's hard enough to figure out what I want to do.

We'll all grow up someday, Meg, we might as well know what we want. ~Amy March~

I think a lot of times, people don't want to do what their parents do because they want to be their own person.

Although will never love anyone again, don't want to become bitter. Or creative.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.

If you want to end your isolation, you must be honest about what you want at a core level and decide to go after it.

There's two lanes running down this road which ever side your on, accounts for where you want to go or what you're running from.

I thought that if I were going into old age I would want to do what [Giuseppe] Verdi did, which is to write extraordinary things, and to really find myself.

It's triumphant for someone to wake up to life. I feel a tremendous sense of liberation. You want to be able to use both your intuitive side and your go-get-'em side with no blame.

I'm always writing to a younger version of myself, or a young woman who is like I was. I want that girl to know that I really existed and that it all went down that way.

That's one of the fun parts of becoming an actor: You can become whoever you want to be.

Accept that, like many men, you have a streak of the homoerotic in you. Why would you, why would anyone, want to be that straight?

It's incredible what we can do if we really want to do it. All we need is to be aware of what we are doing and to return to the authenticity we were born with.

Sometimes we don't want to accept who we really are, and we lie to each other, to ourselves.

The first question in any interactive process with another is: now Who Am I, and Who Do I Want to Be, in relationship to that?

I'm obsessed with the human psyche. I want to understand. I want to ask myself if I have it inside me.

I'm very comfortable with being a female now but when I was a little kid I only wanted to be a boy. I didn't want to be a girl. I didn't feel like a man inside... being a boy was just cooler.

I'm afraid that a certain situation drives me to be someone that I am not, and I always want to be honest and real. I want to be me.

Perhaps I'm hiding from myself. Perhaps I don't want to be what I'm supposed to be. Or perhaps I don't want to keep living the life I already started to live.

I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family.

I don't think I've ever had a plan or direction for myself. I've actually made decisions based more on what I didn't want to do than what I wanted to do.