Quotes About Introspection

I have this sense of independent heartbreak, of annulling romances before they get their feet off the ground.

I know I probably offend some people. I have been talking a little too much so I'm trying not to talk as much.

There's a way I could have done things differently. I know that. If I offended anyone along the way, I do apologize.

Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.

For 35 years, I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren't funny. Some of them weren't appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.

I was 20 years old and felt I had a lot to offer, even to myself.

A lot of independent films offer a harsh reality check.

If you're offered something, you're not really sure exactly what is that they saw in you that they think is the character so it's a little scary, I feel.

I think that when we look at something that's well acted and a story that's well told, it allows us to be a mirror of who we are as human beings and as a culture, and offers a glimpse of where we're headed.

After the Academy Award, well, I was left with a lot of time on my hands. I thought I'd get a lot of offers - and they didn't come.

Once I found out that I had officially been entered in the Royal Rumble, I took some time to myself to sit down and try to comprehend what was going to take place later that night. I couldn't.

Often, when I want to consult my impulses, I cannot find them.

The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.

I think sexuality, especially, is one of those fluid things where oftentimes we find who we are through certain things that happen in our lives.

Oftentimes, I need to write about something in order to understand it.

Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.

I don't look at 'Deadpool' and think, 'Oh, that's a perfect movie.' I look at it and go, 'Oh, God, there's so much stuff I could do better.'

I think everyone in their 30s looks back at their 20s and thinks, 'Oh God, if I'd just done this and this, and not done that.'

It actually takes me a few years before I can watch my own shows, and even then, it's still hard. I'll be like, 'Oh my god, that actor was so good with me in that scene, why didn't I see that and interact with him better?'

I always want to abandon myself to my characters, and I never knew if I was actually abandoning myself to Lady Macbeth. I was scared to enter the darkness. Almost every day, I would go back home and be like, 'Oh my God, what am I doing?' I had no idea.

I can be going through nothing, but within me, in my head, oh my God! It can be a circus.

I think every interaction I have, there's something I walk away going, Oh my God, I sound like a jerk. It's constantly happening.

You get a bad review with a novel, and it hurts. But I imagine if you get a bad review with a memoir, it hurts more because you can always say, 'Well, they didn't like my characters,' but when you're the character, it's like, 'Oh, yeah, they actually didn't like me.'

The fact that I didn't believe in God was something that I just didn't consider. And then when I did, it was like, 'Oh yeah, I'm out.'