Quotes About Self

I'm a passionate person. I'm a lot of things, like most people are. Most people are dynamic. The focus is not on me though, I'm a screen. The aim is to always keep myself in the position where the screen is clear.

I feel like in a world where we all try to figure out our place and our purpose here, your passions are one of your most obvious guides.

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.

We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from.

I'll demand of myself and my own government what, in the past, I insisted of others.

I'm a military brat; my mother's a pastor. There's been a lot of order in my life that I don't have control over, that I just dedicate myself to.

Our sense of self is a kind of construct. It is in some ways like a novel, and it's like a fabric of fictions that we patch together from memory.

You make your own path as an actor. Nobody does it for you, so you have to invent yourself.

I know it sounds pathetic, but I don't know who I am.

If you get serious about yourself as you get old, you are pathetic.

Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.

Paul is an awful name. I might as well be Bob.

If you can't find peace inside, you'll never be at peace.

I was a late developer. For years, I was searching. I was a lost soul something your parents despair of and your peers deride. It isn't at all happy trying to find the right career.

I have always been a pencil.

I can see why people change. You get complimented all the time, driven around in a black SUV - your life is crazy. But that's your career, not you.

I think there are certain ways that people are always themselves, but I do think people change.

I can't focus on what other people say about me.

People say there's a book in everyone but I'm not sure there is. There might be a pamphlet in me.

As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.

A homosexual man is a man 100 per cent. He does not need to dress homosexual.

Our bodies are hanging along for the ride, but my brain is talking to your brain. And if we want to understand who we are and how we feel and perceive, we really understand what brains are.

Being perceived as a guy is nothing new or complicated to me. It is what it is.