Quotes About Introspection

When it comes to the personal essays I write, I just convince myself that no one will ever read them.

There were a lot of bad relationships that got very convoluted up at Columbia with me, what they expected from me.

We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?

I stay standoffish in a sense, in my own personal space, to be able to cope with whatever it is you've got to cope with.

If we go to a party, I'll just be chilling in the corner, absorbing everything.

I think theatre at its best looks into the dark corners; clearly, my dark corners are full of doom.

Honestly, I think it's kind of corny to sit and watch your own work.

Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses?

The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.

I learn by admiring others, listening and correcting what wouldn't be right for me.

In London, it's quite a rarefied activity to be on an analyst's couch.

It's hard to understand how you're feeling, or you don't even know. That's why sometimes people seek counseling.

Maybe I'll take a little better care of myself, but I wouldn't count on it.

I meditate. Just counting my breath. Before I do anything, really.

Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.

It takes some courage to say you were wrong.

I'm ashamed to say the first play I saw at the Royal Court was mine.

Some of my friends say that I only talk about myself. But it is funny: my house is covered in art but with nothing of my own, and when I'm working, I'm only thinking about what the client wants. So I don't see it that way, but maybe it's true. I mean, they are my friends.

I purposely kept covered up because I didn't like people looking at me.

It's hard to know who you are until you're cracked open a little bit.

I love my cracked eyes.

As an actor, you think you know your craft, you know the conflicts in your character, but often you don't.

I'm not a terrible person, I know that, but sometimes in a relationship, I can be crappy.

Sometimes we crash and burn. It's better to do it in private.