Quotes About Introspection

Personality-wise, I like to avoid putting my pride on parade.

I don't go home to parades.

OK, so my parents were married in 1955 and my mom knew my dad was gay and my dad knew he was gay and so I was, like, 'Why in the heck did you get married?' Like, what was going on? What was that time? It's like this crazy paradox that my whole life is based on, or my family's based on. So I spent a lot of time trying to understand '55.

But I will say that most comedians are the saddest people I know. That is the biggest paradox to me.

I'm always looking for complicated characters in fiction about whom I can feel a dozen feelings at once - in the space of a single paragraph, even.

None but himself can be his parallel.

I'm still living at least five parallel lives, honestly! I wonder about it. I have no idea how that happens.

I'm the kind of person who can paralyze myself very easily by over-thinking decisions.

If you start to analyze what you do, it can paralyze you.

Outside certain parameters, I don't consider myself that serious a person.

I just live my life how I live as a person. I certainly am not, like, a saint or an angel by any means. I'm not anything like that. But I live just how I live. I mean, I have a little paranoia, but that's about it.

I have a paranoia that 'Ablutions' is the best thing I'll ever do.

Being British, I don't want to be all paranoid and arrogant and think people are looking at me because, really, I'm nothing.

I'm really ultra-affected by things, I feel things deeper, and I cry at the drop of a hat, and offended and sensitive and I'm almost paranoid very easily, and that's who I am.

Being skint, drunk, paranoid - no, I don't wish that for myself.

Even when I was making the first 'Paranormal Activity,' I didn't tell anyone I was making it, not my friends or neighbors or co-workers. I just kind of found that there was nothing to gain by announcing to the world that you're doing something.

I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.

I married an excellent parent, but I'm not sure that I've made a great parent.

I am not a team player, including my inadequacies as a parent.

It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.

If I'd been a parent to myself, I would have been scared because I was only ever interested in my own thoughts.

I don't consciously think of how parenthood has changed me but I'm sure it must have.

As far as what part of myself I brought to Five, I've always considered myself not really my age.

I think every part of my body needs improvement.