Quotes About Reflection

I had reconciled myself to being happily out to pasture, a bit.

We all need some TLC and to pat ourselves on the back from time to time.

I'm not one to pat myself on my back, but I have had a career for 20 years, and if people are interested in how I did it or if I can give any advice, then that's lovely.

I just finished my 62nd or my 63rd movie here, and you know, I do good ones, I do bad ones, I do big parts, I do small parts, I do cameos - but I've allowed myself a pat on the back, because I realized that I've been working in Hollywood now since 1973.

People need to know that when I was interviewed when I played, I would really pat myself on the back when I did well and tell you how good I was playing, but I'd also tell you when I choked or I was playing terrible. I told it like it was.

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.

When I'm having a tough patch I always try to focus on good things.

What I've always done in my past when life hit a rocky patch was run from trouble into the next relationship. I didn't realise it would be such a big deal. That was foolish.

I had a couple rough patches early in my career. I think I might have made some bad choices here and there.

I guess we go through multiple rough patches in all of our relationships.

Sometimes life guides you on a path so that you can find yourself.

In charting our course to the future, we are mindful of our path from the past.

It was not the path I was to take. Because of my deeds, I will never know peace again.

I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief... All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

I don't think I'd change the path that's got me where I am today.

But the path you end up on means that you have to close a lot of doors, too.

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

While I enjoy it, I will continue to go onstage. While I contribute something, fine. I don't want to be dragging my feet. I don't want to become pathetic, but I think I will be lucid enough. I'll know when to stop.

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

Heartbreak can be so pathetic.

I'm attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I've had a lot of it in my life.

My favorite question is 'Why?' I think it can be really helpful - I also think it can be annoying to people at times; I'll admit that. But I really do try to understand why are we approaching it this way, does it makes sense, is this the right answer, why is it the right answer, are there other paths to getting there, could those be better.

When you get a bit older, life can start kicking and it was mainly the area I grew up in that began to lead me astray. I went down the wrong paths to some degree.

At the end of the day, you go through different paths in the league. I wouldn't change anything about it.