Quotes About Introspection

You know, I've never thought of myself as a comedian.

I don't really consider myself an actor, and I don't know if I'm a comedian.

You can tell a lot about a person by what comedians they like.

As far as I can tell, comedians are pretty serious people, and that's why they make fun of things all of the time.

Comedians are not well people. Well people are not drawn to creating.

Like most comedians, I have crippling low self-esteem, so I always think that what I've just done is rubbish.

It's hard for me to even watch comedies I'm in.

I do a play a year, or every 18 months, and you get your comedies and your dramas, but you hardly get anything that touches some kind of core in you.

If there's comfort involved, it's probably not for me.

People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.

I was kind of a Rickles comic to begin with. I was caustic, and I was abusive and mean to the audience.

The best comics enlist you to take accountability for who you are, whether you like it or not.

Writing is something I should have done more of, it's a form of coming home.

You know, I don't think I've ever listened to someone's commentary. Ever.

I don't want to be a commentator of my own work. If you've written the story, you've said what you want to say.

You know me; I make some comments that aren't really good.

I'm finding that I tend to be one of those people who gets into very committed, long-term relationships, and then I really focus on that relationship and not so much myself.

I wouldn't say I'm a commodity. I try not to think about it too much.

I feel like artists, as much as we'd like to think we're communal, are pretty much loners.

I spent a lot of time alone; I left school to be tutored. So, most of my companions were animals. It's as simple as that. I knew more animals than I did people.

I'm good at my own company.

I don't like to compare players, particularly to myself.

Compare yourself to yourself and say, 'How can I be better? How can I be the real me?'

I don't like to compare myself with anybody.