Quotes About Self-discovery

When you model, you don't really have control over your image. It can be a good thing, it can be a bad thing. It can be a good thing in the sense that, actually, you have to get reintroduced to yourself. You don't always get that opportunity in your normal life. You can kind of hide from yourself.

When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that normally are not with you in the daytime and you discover that you know a great deal more than you thought you did.

I sort of felt like being young was normally written about as being very fun and light-hearted. And I think that's true, but I don't feel like there's a lot of songs about how hard it is when you don't really know who you are or what you want, and you feel like you have to apologize for simply just existing.

It's a lot of fun to play someone you don't normally think of yourself as.

Normally I don't race other people; I challenge the environment and my own limitations.

Normally, the action is just a gratuitous thing. In the case of Bourne, he was going to learn about himself in the action scenes.

I started coming into my own at 30, discovering what's important to me, not caring what other people think.

It's like, 'You're not allowed to change. That's not fair. We like you like this.' But I don't. So let me expand and express myself.

I'm not interested in nostalgia; I'm interested in who I am.

Some of the best times I've ever had in my life have been because of acting and through acting. But I'm not interested in the game of acting and being an actor and auditioning and all that stuff.

I've always been afraid of who I am and not knowing what I can do.

Jo left me a few months ago for 10 days. I get this note: I'll come back when the real Ronnie comes back.

Spend time in your head and figure yourself out. Start taking note of all the things you do that you don't like, and then you're more conscious of it, and you learn.

I notice a difference from the moment I meditate.

I see people as haunted by the selves they don't know... I don't have children, but I have nieces and nephews, and one thing I notice is how fascinated they are by stories of their lives before they can remember.

In acting, while you play different roles, you begin to discover yourself and begin to notice life as you relate to the characters you represent.

There's more to anybody. Just because you haven't noticed it, that's your problem, that's not mine.

Growing up without a dad and not having a father figure - I noticed a hole in my life. For the longest time, I would run away from my problems instead of confronting them. I felt empty at one point. Not depressed, but empty.

I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody.

I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.

Nowadays, if somebody in America is feeling alone and wants to find a coming out story, they just search 'coming out,' and they'll find millions of first-person examples of people telling their story.

I think nowadays it's very important to re-connect with ourselves and our roots.

Took me a long time to know I was a nobody from nowhere.

There have been moments in my life when I've become numb to certain aspects of myself that I found frightening. Or I've conformed to certain morals of society and then maybe rebelled or found a way out.