Quotes About Introspection

I play along myself, even though I can't help the player. So I can't say what I think the answer might be. But I'll be playing in my head, while they are.

People talk about games and loneliness - it's a lonely activity. I didn't understand that. 'Gears of War' was the first multiplayer game for me that I enjoyed. But I wasn't sad. I liked being alone. I liked playing games by myself. I had lots of companionship at the house.

Anybody who plays golf will tell you that you play against yourself.

I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.

You are the plays you write. How on earth could you write them otherwise? They're projections of your own predilections.

I'm somebody who plays the piano... sometimes.

Not to be narcissistic, but I truly believe in order to make yourself better, you should see what you did before and what was good about that and what wasn't - same way a football team plays a game and then they go back and watch film.

I am not, at heart, a playwright.

When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the modern movement was the enormous honesty that writers, painters and playwrights displayed about themselves. The bourgeois novel flinches from such notions.

When I look at me, I think I'm a good catch. Why wouldn't somebody like me for me? I'm a pleasant person. I'm an intelligent person. I'm a good person. I'm not bad looking. Why wouldn't I be able to get somebody to like me?

I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.

It's always, you know, a pleasant exercise to imagine my own death because then I'm so happy when I can stop.

I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession.

I spent a good deal of time going back over my childhood, my midlife, to try to understand who I was. We're supposed to be complete and whole, and you can't be whole if you're trying to be perfect. Doing a life review helped me get over the disease to please.

I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.

You write to please yourself, you write to move yourself, to engage yourself in the asking of questions that are important to you.

I don't want to do things because it will please other people. I'm not doing this to get fame or any attention. I try to be selective about who I get advice from. I would like to contribute to the art world, but, you know, you can't plan these things.

I think an actor's process should be very personal and private, and sometimes I have thought, 'Oh, please, put it away now.'

Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.

What probably confuses people is they know a lot about me, but it quite pleases me that there's more they don't know.

Admitting failure is quite cleansing, but never - pleasurable.

It just seemed hedonistic when I first started acting. It was a pleasurable thing. But as I look back on it now, I understand that it was a journey of the self for me.

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.