Quotes About Reflection

You have to take the time to live in a place to collect all the pieces, develop a vision. You can't just go to Home Depot and buy everything.

My body had to mature, and my mind had to mature. I had to put these pieces together.

It's hard to say what you learn acting a part. You find bits and pieces of yourself that are inside the character you play. You locate the relatable aspects of that character to your own life. So, in a way, every part you play forces you to discover things about yourself you might not have learned otherwise.

It is the little things that pierce and burn and prick for years to come.

Every album is just a greatest hits of whatever songs are on a pile when I go in to make a record.

I write every first draft - almost every draft, but certainly the first - by hand on blank white pieces of paper, so I don't know how long it is as I'm writing; it just piles up, and then I input it all in my computer, and I learn how long it is.

I always have to have what I believe are the pillars of an album - songs which I can go back to and admire personally as a piece of writing.

I don't always sleep for too long, but I sleep well. Sometimes when you have a doubt about team selection, you talk to your pillow, but in the morning, you have an idea.

I want pills called September 10. You take one and your mind feels like the 11th never happened.

She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes.

When I did the pilot, Mort was very real to me. When I got through with the ten weeks, Maura is even more real to me.

I wouldn't know any newer bands. We're past the pimple stage.

Anything I wrote before the age of 17 is probably worth putting a pin in and moving on.

I don't miss my pin-up days. I'm far too old for that malarkey.

I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.

Even though I'm in the changing room and I know I am, you still have to pinch yourself every night that you can say you're a Manchester United player.

I pinch myself daily.

Pretty much everyday, there's a moment where I'm having to pinch myself and think, 'When did this happen to my life?'

People ask if I walk around and pinch myself. Yes, I do.

I still pinch myself that I had the career that I had.

I don't know why I got so lucky. I have to pinch myself often and say, 'Is this just a dream?'

When I look back at the 1980s I pinch myself. Did I really do all that?

I have just been working with Maggie Gyllenhaal, who is also a mum, on a movie called 'Hysteria.' She is everywhere because of the nature of film work. Not that I'm name dropping or anything like that. I have to pinch myself when I remember who I've been working with.

Sometimes I do pinch myself about the life I've had.