Quotes About Introspection

I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles.

Sometimes I feel like those born-again folk, always working on their faith, but I'm always working on my atheism. We all have our struggles.

Super Sad Generation' was essentially about the struggles that you go through when you're growing up in the world and trying to figure out what kind of person you want to be.

One of the biggest struggles I've had is being me.

You're lucky if you find something that makes you feel like yourself; that's the one time that you feel like you know who you are. Most people are struggling to find that out all the time.

Everyone at a point in their life is struggling to find out who they are and where they belong.

I enjoy playing characters who are struggling, particularly with themselves.

There's nothing better than just staring at a buttercup, struggling to make an impact on the world.

It's always interesting to see somebody struggling with two different sides of their personality.

It's hard to distinguish when I was actually struggling from when I only felt like I was struggling - which was pretty much always.

When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.'

For 13 years, I struggled with education and have only just realised that I was actually struggling to protect myself from it. I was trying to protect my soul.

I don't listen to people's opinions. I have people around me who I can trust, but most of all I listen to myself.

I always knew I was different and that people had opinions about me. I guess I learned as best as I can to shield out a lot and live my life from within.

I'm not the kind of person that seeks out other people's opinions on my works.

The criticism does not hurt because I have always been my own worst critic. I wouldn't say I don't respect other people's opinions, but my opinion is the most important.

At the end of the day, I can't curl up with people's opinions.

I learned my lesson early in my career that it's not helpful to go and look at what other people's opinions are.

I am myself sometimes, and I do state my opinions, but not in a comedy routine and not in my character. There always has to be some sort of layer to it.

It's definitely something you have to learn: that you are going to be judged and scrutinised, but you have to decide how much you listen to and how much you let other people's opinions in.

I don't just study my opponent; I study myself. It's something you have to do to get better.

I always say when the opponent was better.

The arts were like, there's no opponent. It's just yourself. I'm not saying they don't make the arts a competition with awards and all that, but that's outside the work itself.

That's usually the way I am - I don't care what my opponent can do. I just focus on myself.