Quotes About Self-discovery

The real road, to me, was within the actor, within myself, within my own personality. How much Jeffrey can I find, and how much of Jeffrey could I access? What parts of Jeffrey have I never used for Hank or for George or Oscar? - and that was a delight.

I didn't know what gay was. There was no such thing when I was growing up. I knew I had crushes on boys, but I didn't think there was anything wrong with that until I started to hear about it from the other kids in school.

I knew I was different when I was about six years of age but I just knew that I wasn't like everybody else. I mean I wasn't like the other kids. I didn't know what that was. But I guess it was when I was in seventh or eighth grade, I'm like, 'Hey, something's wrong here.'

I just love Ottawa because I was able to develop a lot of things, my own character as a man.

Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.

'Cars 2' is about a character learning to be himself. There's times in our lives where people always say, 'Well, you've gotta act differently. You should always be yourself.' That's the emotional core of the story.

I think within our music there is a real strong idea of search, search for identity, search for place, search for time, search for love, search for knowledge.

In our world, we have this huge focus on vicarious living - politicians, movie stars, athletes, coaches, all these people. What our research has shown very clearly is that people who are really happier and have more meaningful lives are people that focus on living their own lives.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

We all face crossroads in our lives where we can retreat into ourselves, or we can hit the dance floor.

Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.

We have to really educate ourselves in a way about who we are, what our real identity is.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

Black Rock gives us all a chance to heal, to become ourselves.

I felt like an outcast and turned to books, fantasy in particular, to find a place for myself. Reading took me away from this world, which I needed.

All those hours exploring the great outdoors made me more resilient and confident.

There's the public self that we present to the outer world. There's the private self, which maybe takes more time to access. But ultimately, what I'm most interested in as a writer is a few notches below the private self.

I think every woman has this point in her life where she's like, 'I have a great job, great outfits and great friends, but something's missing.'

Sport has definitely been an outlet for me.

For me, drawing was an outlet. No one in school said, 'Oh, she can do sports,' or, 'She's pretty,' but I could draw.

I started doing drag because I needed a creative outlet for myself.

Doing acting opened up other creative outlets; it made me feel freer as an artist.

Things like 'following your passion' and 'finding your creative outlets' didn't mean anything to me because I didn't have that area of my brain.

The more power you can find in yourself and your own surety and identity is actually the best output that you could give to your friends in relationships.