Quotes About Introspection

There's probably a couple someones that are gonna hear the songs and go, 'I think that might have been about me,' or, 'I know it's about me.' I do play that pretty close to the vest. I don't think I'm ever gonna write a song and drop somebody's name in it.

The way actors interact with their audience via Twitter is a part of their personality. So if I interact less, that is a part of my personality. I am mostly lost in my own world.

'The Tree of Life' is a collection of conversations that lost souls and true believers have with themselves while keeping their heads to the sky. But the movie is church via the planetarium.

As a non believer I don't get the idea of asking god for things via prayer.

I went through that stage of the Mumford & Sons and the Alanis Morissette vibe. I was in a dark place at the time.

I quite like to, y'know, chill and catch a vibe where you can actually talk, as opposed to standing on the floor in the club.

I don't want to force my vibe on anyone, but you've got to learn to love yourself, as opposed to being in love with yourself.

I'd be like, 'You're a young, vibrant woman. Where are you?' I realized that I had been living in denial.

Some of the greatest stuff that I watch, that I'm drawn to, is deeply flawed human beings, because they're representing a part of us that might not be all of us but the part we're most afraid to look at, and so we get to vicariously experience it through this character.

It's hard to define change in oneself unless something really dramatic happens, like you give up some vice, fall in love, or something like that.

For me, growing up, I felt like there was something fatally and tragically flawed in my nature and that it was my duty to try to avoid falling for that vice.

He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.

I've spent a lot of my life forcing myself to do the right thing, and nowadays, I've just forgotten about all that. It's far more romantic just to let all your vices and fetishes come out and shine.

I definitely have a dark side of me that can be pretty vicious... as we all do.

I'm a very vicious critic of myself.

I'm actually tougher on myself as I get older. It's a vicious cycle. The things that are important in life are the things that you can't buy in life: love, health and happiness. I say that, and I believe that, and I try to live that.

I'm a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make me very unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned to make that feeling work for me.

I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.

I am a victim of introspection.

Some of us have become so addicted to pointing fingers at others for all the wrong that happens in our lives that self-assessment has become synonymous with blaming the victim.

Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.

I'm actually more comfortable playing the stroke victim or the girl with no makeup on, looking scruffy and it's all about what's going on inside rather than on the outside.