Quotes About Introspection

The decision to retire was 100 percent just me, and so you're never sure how you're going to feel.

I think I should stay retired.

When I am retired I will know how good I was.

When I first retired from the game, I had times in my life when the days just wouldn't move.

I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.

I don't mind going out to do my shows but I can still retreat back into my own private world, you know? And that is very key.

I didn't think of myself as beautiful, but, in retrospect, I guess I was.

I really tend to write in retrospect.

In any walk of life, it's very easy to judge people's actions in retrospect.

I do think people do pick movies that reveal something about them that they aren't always aware of. If you ask them what kind of an actor they think they are, they'll probably tell you something different than what they've actually done.

Sometimes I think it's the responsibility of the artist to reveal a little more of themselves.

I hope they don't reveal everything they know about me.

I reveal too much of myself.

I went from following people to being on my own. Once I was on my own, I watched people start liking me, and I watched people stop liking me. Everything was supposed happen. It was all supposed to reveal itself.

I reveal myself in my movies.

Know not to revere human things too much.

Honestly, at the end of every season, we sit down and review where we're at.

I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though.

Shorter work - personal essays and book reviews - allow me to take a break from working on a book, which is good for the book and for its author.

Sometimes you revisit things and relationships, and then you get going on in it, and you realized that there is a reason this ended.

Social revolutions and group revolutions are good, and we need that, but we also need personal revolution - revolution within ourselves that change who we are as people.

It's never been bad or ridiculous. I know who I am and what I've done, and I'm really comfortable with myself.

I don't think anyone is boring, actually, if you ask the right questions and look at them the right way.

I can gabble on now, but I couldn't when I was a kid, so I spent a lot of time in my own head on the moors by myself. It felt like writing was the right way to express myself.