Quotes About Reflection

I don't have time for self-pity. I don't see the point in dwelling on the past.

We as a country, our lust for entertainment has sort of superseded our sense of self-preservation.

Self-realization is great.

People say I'm selfish. There might be some truth to that.

I have to live with both my selves as best I may.

Guys are really lucky. We become our authentic selves the older we get.

There's a joke in my family that I'm going to make a career out of playing other people's younger selves.

I have had a very fun, positive experience in seminary. It's taught me a lot.

I didn't want to be a senator, but I considered it anyway.

If you want to write an angry e-mail, write it but don't send it. It's based on my experience that whenever I have acted out in some manner, I have always regretted it.

I believe that we live in a 'return to sender universe' - what you send out is exactly what you will get back.

If you don't want the world to see something you're sending, stop and think before you put it out there.

As a senior in high school, you figure out what you want to do with your life. I asked myself if I wanted to get back into acting and thought: 'Yes, but under my own terms and nothing like it was before.'

I think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person's soul.

Sometimes I wish I were less sensible.

It is sensible of me to be aware that I will die one of these days. I will not 'pass away.'

I've made a lot of mistakes in my life. And I'm really sensitive, so I take even small mistakes as huge ones.

I don't know if I've become a better actor or a more sensitive one. But I've learnt what not to do.

I got sent off a few times in my life, but I never lost my head. I mistimed tackles, and I made mistakes.

My 12 years in Los Angeles were hell! But I was sent to study hell and to learn as much from it as I could because there is no other place like hell for a full and complete education.

This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.

I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.

The writing that feels the best to me, I experience sometimes, is a kind of weirdly deep listening - like, it feels like if you just listen hard enough, the next sentence will tell you what it needs to be.

My aspiration was to write a book that you could still read in 10 years. That's hard. Then you start doubting every sentence you write.