Quotes About Introspection

As an only child, I may have been alone a lot, but I was never lonely. My invisible friends were my constant companions.

I was an only child, so I was alone a lot.

I grew up as an only child, so I like being by myself. So I train predominantly - 98 percent of the time - by myself.

You spend a lot more time on your own as an only child. And there's space to allow your imagination to take flight.

Being an only child, you just have a lot of time on your hands, figuring things out. Just doing music, man - music just came to me.

Because I was an only child, I lived in a very grown-up world.

What I love to say when people ask me about being a Christian, I always say, 'Christians aren't perfect.' They're probably some of the worst people on the planet. They just know that they need Jesus. That's the only difference.

I've always liked to watch myself onscreen because that's how I learn.

I think it is easier to hear my voice than see myself onscreen, particularly as the years progress. Watching myself onscreen becomes less and less enthralling.

I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage.

I'm my own most merciless critic onstage.

I really liked drama and being in plays, so when I was playing a character onstage and I could act like somebody else, then I wasn't scared or nervous, but I didn't like meeting new people when I had to be myself. That was scary.

Do I show up onstage late sometimes? That's something I could definitely work on. I'm human.

I wasn't interested in holding onto the evidence of things.

Sometimes I'm just like, 'I cannot hold onto this anymore,' and it's time to say something. And at the end of the day, I've just got to let it go and be true to myself. Whatever comes out comes out.

When you do something that maybe wasn't the best thing to do at the time, you don't want to hold onto those feelings of guilt, shame or embarrassment, as much as you'd like to learn from them.

An essay is not an op-ed that tells its reader what to think. An essay is a complicated working-out of one's own contradictions and complicities.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for improvement - and secure enough to be open about them.

I've always found myself to be most free and creatively open when I'm on my own.

I enjoy my alone time, but I'm an open book.

I really don't think I have lived my life as an open book.

My life has always been an open book and it's not such an eventful life.

A good conservative is someone with an open mind.