Quotes About Introspection

The real road, to me, was within the actor, within myself, within my own personality. How much Jeffrey can I find, and how much of Jeffrey could I access? What parts of Jeffrey have I never used for Hank or for George or Oscar? - and that was a delight.

I built my work from within instead of satisfying a demand for sexualised and ostentatious clothing.

The other day I... uh, no, that wasn't me.

We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.

When I was a kid, I was afraid of other kids.

When I follow my own head, I am, in general, much more correct in my judgment than following the opinion of others.

I do not need to hear how I am judged by others. I know by myself if I can be satisfied or not with my work.

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.

The wideness of the horizon has to be inside us, cannot be anywhere but inside us, otherwise what we speak about is geographic distances.

I need them, need them to give me a kick up the arse. Otherwise I'd just be sat-in getting fat, counting me money. It's good people living on your doorstep and looking through your bins. Gives you energy.

A holy day, after all, is a day for considering everything you otherwise think too little about.

I had to walk away from America, and say goodbye to the biggest part of my career, because I knew otherwise my demons would get the better of me.

When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.

I am certainly an ought and not a must.

I think books that are meant to be read in the nighttime ought to confront the very fears that we're trying to think about.

You just look at the world, and you see things unraveling, and you say, 'I wonder what we ought to do?' Things are seldom crystal clear.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

From the time we open our eyes, we live in a Steadicam form, and the only editing is when we talk about our lives or remember things.

Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is filler.

I believe much of our lives is about guilt management.

We finally sat down and asked ourselves how much of our lives we wanted to give everybody. We had just given a little too much, and it started to become a burden.

I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish mistakes.

Every relationship that we have in our lives - our contact with each person, place, and event - serves a very special, if yet to be realized purpose: They are mirrors that can serve to show us things about ourselves that can be realized in no other way.

I write because I'm in love with language; because I like working for myself, inside my head; and because it's the only way I know to make a stab at answering the never-ending questions of the heart that arise simply from the everyday living of our lives.