Quotes About Self-discovery

I've had a very specific path over the years. Sometimes they're not all we want them to be, but they create who we are.

I think first of all my purpose is to be me. I didn't come here to specifically be a role model or anything.

One of the reasons I'm an actor is because I was no physical specimen as a child. I wasn't athletic and didn't have any prowess in that regard. Growing up in Kentucky, most little boys were trying to get into sports, and it was very competitive, so that was not to be. But I did want to do something.

People kept calling me a freak and a specimen. I put it all together and came up with The Beast.

If gender is on a spectrum, where one finds oneself is completely unique.

Am I a girl, or am I boy? It's a spectrum.

I think it would be great if everybody could be out. But it's such a personal choice. People have to do it at their own speed. I respect that.

I was only in Scotland for four months or something, but I look back at that, and it was a big learning curve for me in that short spell. I went there with an open mind to show everyone in Scotland what I was about. Looking back, I am very glad with the decision I made.

I think that most people will spend their whole life not figuring out what they're meant to do, or figuring out what they're meant to do on their way to do something else. So I just feel lucky that I know what I love to do. Everything else figures itself out.

There is no point in spending time with someone who makes you forget your sense of self.

I had to learn - since I'm divorced now and everyone is like, 'Oh my God, you're single, what's going on?' - that if I don't like to spend time with myself, how can I ask someone else to enjoy spending time with me? I'm getting to learn how to enjoy my solitude and have a good time.

In one way or another, everybody has this experience in their lives... the moment when you have to define your relationship to family and how your family's made you who you are, whether you've spent your life running from your family or deeply connected to your family.

I was miserable the entire time I was Vanity. I spent so many days and so many nights crying, hating who I'd become.

I wore the hijab - a form of dress that comprises a head scarf and usually also clothing that covers the whole body except for the face and hands - for nine years. Put more honestly, I wore the hijab for nine years and spent eight of them trying to take it off.

By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with.

Before playing football, I didn't fit in anywhere. My parents didn't have a lot of money, which they spent on our education to send us to Catholic private school in Oakland, mostly black. The other kids had more money than I did. I started school early; I was young. So I'd come back to my hood and read.

I'm so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.

Leave women to find their sphere.

That whole Wavy Spice, '90s thing, it wasn't who I was or what I saw myself doing in the future.

You know, all my friends call me Gender Spice.

As cool as it is to be Spider-Man at times, there's also a price to pay for that - and he has to learn to balance things out.

I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning.

When someone is denying what they are, then that's when things start to spiral down.

Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.