Quotes About Self-discovery

A background person is all I've been all my life.

To be adult is to be alone.

I really do feel like I know myself, and I'm so happy to be by myself and I'm so happy to be with other people; I just know myself really, really well, and I think that is an amazing thing. I think a lot of people don't know themselves that well.

I don't analyse myself.

I kind of hate the fact that I feel like people expect you to announce what you are, and then you become it. I would rather become the thing and then name it.

When I got into music, that was another way to be by myself.

I wish I knew at 14 not to put much thought into what other people my age said to me, cause we were all looking for the answers. So I wish I knew that other people really don't know any more than you do!

Sometimes people look to others for answers they can find within themselves. I don't really want the responsibility of being the guy they look to.

All my life, I wanted to sound like myself. I never wanted to sound like anybody else.

I learned more about myself by being an RN than anything else I've ever done.

It feels like as you get a bit older, you've worked out the things that are good for your life apart from with acting.

I can remember very clearly sitting in a little room in my apartment going, 'You know what, Jace? I think it's time to go back to university.'

I never thought I could sing, but apparently I can.

I do believe that for me, my own personal journey has been one in which my voice has also been appreciated.

It's why you create characters: so you can argue with yourself.

I've been trying to arrive at a person who is self-defined and able to make my own mistakes rather than having other people make them for me.

I feel as though I came to music with something to say. It wasn't like that when I was younger. I didn't have the ability to articulate what it was I wanted to say.

I didn't want to be an artist.

But as an artiste, I want to challenge myself because that is what art is all about.

Sure, I'm ashamed of a lot of the things I did, but at the same time, I wouldn't be the person I am today if I hadn't gone through those experiences.

For some reason, I was deeply ashamed of the theater early on. I think it had to do with this growing sense I was gay, although I couldn't have put a word to it back then.

Istniej? my?li, którym jeste?my pos?uszni, nie znaj?c ich; s? w nas bez naszej wiedzy. Mimo ?e to spostrze?enie mo?e si? wyda? raczej paradoksem ni? prawd?, ka?dy szczery cz?owiek znajdzie na nie w ?yciu tysi?c dowodów.

Pour un pauvre être écrasé par les différents despotismes qui, peu ou prou, pèsent sur toutes les jeunesses, le premier usage du libre arbitre, exercé même sur des riens, apportait à Tâme je ne sais quel épanouissement.

What do you do, gentlemen, when you place a man in solitude? You isolate him.