Quotes About Introspection

I'm not an example for how people should live their lives. Never in my life would I ever set out to be an example for people on how to live their lives. If you need an example for how to live, then you just shouldn't have been born. Straight up.

I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.

I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed.

I've given up on trying to explain myself, or trying to set the record straight, or trying to get people to understand what I'm really like as a man, outside of my acting, outside of my job.

I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.

I need to set the record straight for myself.

I was a closet straight. I think I wanted to be gay because I thought it was arty and interesting. And also, I was phenomenally shy with girls.

Portraiture keeps me humble. It's simple and straightforward. There is nothing more interesting I can make up than the figure sitting right in front of me.

We've become embarrassed about asking ourselves the straightforward, simple questions that are actually the most relevent: what is it to be human? How can we steer a course between self-indulgence and self-denial and be the very best version of ourselves that we can?

The idea of physical strain and discipline, the question of how and when you leave that life behind - they're things I'm familiar with on one level or another.

If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read them all.

We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.

It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going.

I have lots of strange ideas in the back of my mind.

It's hard for me to talk about Dom right now because I am Dom right now. So it's a really strange exercise to try to reflect on something that I am at the moment. But I guarantee you that when I'm done with the movie and you ask me that question, I'll be able to give you something insightful.

I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.

Looking in the mirror is very strange; we see only what we choose to see, good or bad.

I just want to live each moment, but it's kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze yourself constantly. But it's also good in that you are forced to think about things that you don't ordinarily think about. I think it's strange.

I'm starting to realize that people are beginning to want to know about me. It's a jolly strange idea.

I hit this point - I guess you'd say an end of a chapter - where I felt like I kind of did everything. I wasn't interested in music. It was a really strange feeling, and needless to say, it freaked me out a little bit. I really started to go inward and say, 'Hey, what is this about?'

I have the strange ability to shut things out.

I was saying earlier that it's really strange - you can almost step outside yourself and observe yourself running, and that's what I was doing.

Being a shy person, I always felt strange outside with my camera.

I'm just not used to talking that much about myself. It feels strange.