Quotes About Reflection

Frankly, it's embarrassing to have a house filled with giant portraits of yourself.

A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.

I'm ashamed to say, I've done hideous pen portraits of people I don't like in my novels. And they'll say, 'Oh, that person was hideous,' and I'm nodding, and I'm thinking, 'It's you, you fool!'

The characters I portray are an extension of what I've seen, heard, or read, and so what you see in my films are how I understand life.

Sometimes I want to convey something complex philosophically, and sometimes I just want to portray myself in a situation that I think other people have been in many times, but it hasn't been written about much.

Hollywood and film portray who we are as a people and what we value as a culture.

People do things on Instagram and put on a front and try to live a life that they may not really want to live, or don't truly believe in. And that's the life that they portray. That's not the real them. We all have to be more aware of what is that's really happening inside. Are we really standing for what we believe in?

You are what you're portrayed as.

I wasn't exactly sure where I wanted to take my music and how I wanted to be portrayed, and it was sort of, not done for me, but more directed.

I think you have to be very secure as an actor to escape yourself - to revisit someone's past, whether you're portraying another person or creating someone, and then to come back to who you are and not bring those emotions with you.

It has been great portraying Gollum, but it will be great to see my face on screen for a change.

People do ask me for advice for some reason. And I'll just kind of pose it back to them and let them answer on their own. I never like to give my advice 'cause I don't want them to come back and 'You were wrong! You ruined my life!' so it's more about 'Hey, this is what you just told me. What does that sound like to you?'

I used to be very into fitness and would happily pose for photos in my bikini. Now I look at those and think, 'Where did that body go?' But that was before children.

I remember thinking, 'Downward dog' is so not a resting pose!' Now it actually can be.

There's a weird intellectual approach to filmmaking, where I pose a question to myself and use the film to try and answer it.

I truly found myself beautiful and thought that I had the potential to model, so I always would do little poses in the mirror and things, but I never expected it to come to this.

I think the thing that will endure about Westworld will be the questions it poses.

The first posh meal out I had was on my 10th birthday.

Get into the habit of imagining an alternate scenario. By posing such 'imagine if' questions... we can distance ourselves from the frames, cues, anchors and rhetoric that might be affecting us.

A lot of my songs are just posing questions, because I'm on a journey to find the answers myself.

I think I'm in a really nice position, where I'm sure I could do another show if I wanted to do one, but right now the main thing in my mind is writing songs.

What position didn't I play last season?

Defensive midfield can be the one position that's easier to play as you get older.

Anybody can be very destructive in that position without at all meaning to be, and I know that I have been inadvertently destructive in the past for certain people on certain occasions.