Quotes About Introspection

After my Kannada debut, I went through a difficult phase in life. People would make fun of me behind my back, and there were days I would cry alone for hours.

I know I dressed way too provocatively when I look back. I was in that weird phase of feeling suddenly like my body was a woman's body and not a kid's body.

In 1998 when I did the album 'Blue,' that was my worst phase.

I go through phases sometimes: 'I'm a genius; they get me,' and sometimes I'm like, 'Why does anyone want to hear me?'

There I am, watching Philip Seymour Hoffman, one of my favourite actors in the world, walk into the room dressed up as Father Christmas, being hilarious, and I'm suddenly thinking, 'Where am I?'

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

I am a fictionalizing philosopher, not a novelist.

I think, when people hear the word 'philosophy,' they think of Plato and a bunch of people sitting around in their robes pontificating about life and how it should be. But really, somebody who is an active philosopher should not only be thinking of these things but putting them into practice.

Snoopy was a philosopher in a way.

I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring.

There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore.

I was interested in philosophy before I knew I was. That's to say, when I was at school, I used to argue with my friends about issues that turned out to be philosophical ones of some kind.

The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast is to identify our dependencies, and free ourselves from them.

Philosophy is for the few.

We have to make philosophy itself an object of philosophical concern.

Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.

What I wanted to do was to try to create a philosophy upon a completely new foundation.

The podcast is a bit like a phone call, except you don't say anything.

Everyone's so interior now, they're not really looking around them. They're on their phones.

Our phones don't just keep us in touch with the world; they're also diaries, confessional booths, repositories for our deepest secrets.

In a perfect world, I would never do any interviews, and probably there would be one photo out there of me, and that would be it.

If you want to see me cry, just come to a photo shoot.

I'm more interested in photographing people who have done something, like writers or directors - even billionaires - as long as I can study them before I photograph them.

I just think of everything I do and how happy it will make me to do it. I don't like having my photograph taken, for instance, so I don't do that often.