Quotes About Reflection

We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives.

Mistakes, once owned, apologized for, and buried, need to be an accepted part of life.

I would take one of 15 half-million-dollar cars I owned and go to the mall and spend that much money. Stupid, stupid stuff. It's like it didn't make a difference. They were ego investments. I would have been great with three or four cars. I didn't need a 117-foot boat.

I never thought I'd be sitting across the table with the owner of Hennessy.

The mind of the writer does indeed do something before it dies, and so does its owner, but I would be hard put to call it living.

If I can go three grandmothers back and find a slave, that means someone else can go three grandmothers back and find a slave owner. When you interrogate your histories, it forces you to rethink who you are and where you are.

Sometimes I see myself as a locked box - very detached from myself and others. But I feel lucky, because I am the owner of my time, and you cannot buy time.

I'm not the best dog owner.

You know how a dog and his owner start to look alike after a while? Well, that's like me and Billy.

There's a cafe in Mosman near where I lived and if I have any days off I go there at 10 in the morning with my notebook, sit in the same chair, order the same breakfast and coffee, write my thoughts down, and chat, have the same conversation with the owner.

It's funny, I feel like dogs take after their owners and certain mannerisms and the energy that they have.

I take ownership of every mistake I've ever made.

After 28 years of owning boats, I'm over it.

I went through a public divorce and wrote a project called '29' that really just is all about speaking your truth and owning the fact that we all go through things in life and it's all about what comes out of them.

I never fully got to experience my childhood. I've spent a lot of time having to sort of grow myself up in many ways and also to sort of slow myself down and allow myself to live at the pace that I am.

Don't ignore the past, but deal with it, on your own pace. Once you deal with it, you are free of it; and you are free to embrace your life and be a happy loving person because if you don't, the past will come back to haunt and keep coming back to haunt you.

I think people are looking for an alternative to the fast pace of everyday life and entertainment.

I was the leading star in 1945. I slowed down my pace of acting assignments after I came into direction.

I'm trying to change up the pace in which I approach life so I'm not always go, go, go.

Where do you go after something like 'Pacific Rim?' Which, for me, was such a moment, to have this thing and see it all come together, and it's big, and it has this cult following... You ask yourself, 'What's next?'

What I really learned in the army was how to be a pacifist.

What did winning a Grammy do for me? It made me want to get rid of my Grammy, pack it away, and never see it again. It made me not want to speak to anyone who wanted to speak about my Grammy.

I had assumed I'd pack my bags and head elsewhere after 'Constellation,' but Chechnya is creeping its way into the margins of my second book.

When I look at offers, I think about the entire package and how it is going to work in my favour or how it's going to project me.