Quotes About Introspection

I think, as I get older, I appreciate how great 'Empire Strikes Back is.' You know, because you realize, man, that is a dark movie and it ends on such a dark note.

If you receive a whole string of bad reviews, you have to say, 'O.K., maybe there's something here we should pay attention to.'

I've got a string of disastrous relationships behind me. I don't think I'm an easy person to live with.

I know this as a musician: When you nail something, and you get so much attention for it, you want to strip that away and prove, mostly for yourself, that you don't need that.

I'm enjoying writing songs that are more stripped back.

When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything, and you really get to see who these people are, the good and the bad.

Working on 'Honeymoon,' an independent movie, was almost like working on TV with the space, and everything was stripped down - costume and hair and makeup. There was very little to hide behind, and you absolutely had to create the character from within.

The only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping and showing off his shortcomings.

My movies are usually about stripping off the makeup, getting down to the skeleton.

Men should strive to think much and know little.

I've always avoided publicity. I've never been good copy at any stage of my life. I don't strive for it, because I don't think it's important whether I'm good copy or not. The two can go together, if that's your personality, but every person on this earth is unique.

Everyday I strive to, at least, recognise my short-comings and the things I have to do to be the best person that I can possibly be.

I come armed with a really good ignorance. I don't strive toward ignorance. I come by it naturally.

When I write a book, characters come to life for me somewhere at the back of my head. I strive to make them flesh and blood in an abstract way, in words.

I think when I was younger, I strived for perfection. And now I strive for my imperfections because I think they're more interesting.

I find that music makes people just sit and listen, firstly. Then, they seem to interpret their own emotions with the music and it makes them ponder their own life a lot. And then they start to question: Am I happy in my work? Am I happy in my relationships? What am I striving for?

I don't know if I'm striving for anything that I can put into words.

To become a good cook is to know yourself, and I, at this point, know myself. I know myself, and I know the cook I want to be and the cook I am striving to be.

As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.

If you're constantly striving for questions that are never going to be answered, then you're only being detrimental to your own mental health.

In stand-up, you do need to be having fun up there, like Richard Pryor said, but you have to know yourself well, too... You start learning, and it's like playing a piano. You know exactly what keys to stroke, 'cause really, with comedy, you're, like, fiddling with people's souls.

If you're an only child, you spend a lot of time by yourself, and you develop a strong ability to entertain yourself, to conjure up fantasy.

The only strong opinion that I have about myself is that I don't have any opinions.

When I look back at the time that's passed, it makes me think that I'm actually quite a strong person.