Quotes About Introspection

Well, you know, with every character, if you're going to expose yourself, you've got to figure out every detail that you're going to play. So there's no character that you can just go put on his shirt and be fully prepared.

I have no memories I'm prepared to share with you.

That's healthy and good for us that there are people who are prepared to question what we are doing.

I don't think I necessarily am prepared to write about anybody else's life but mine.

At 2, I start preparing fish or chicken for dinner. I don't drive. I don't have hobbies. I have no desire to travel.

It's not a prerequisite for an actor to be obsessed about his looks. I know there are people who don't look in the mirror at all, and I'm getting there.

'Presence of God' is really that understanding that sometimes when you step out of your own shoes and just open your ears and listen to what's going on around you, you get answers to the questions you were asking.

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

I just try to tell a story rather than present an open diary to the world.

The mind is always present. You just don't see it.

I feel like I'm constantly fighting against my exterior, or this exterior presentation of myself, because of how I look or perhaps because of who I'm with.

I'm definitely interested in exploring human contradictions. Contradictions are what make us human - it's what defines us as human beings. Contradictions are what make characters interesting, and I've been lucky to be presented with characters who have a lot of contradictions.

When I was 18, 19, I was presented as the 'aw shucks' Nebraska kid who's coming up with a big serve, and then I flipped out a couple of times, and then I was ueber-brat, when I feel like there's parts of both, but I don't think I am either one, if that makes sense.

Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.

Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history.

Considering I'm a young president, I wouldn't like to make an evaluation of myself. It's not my job to do that.

If I had the opportunity to give President Trump any advice, and I had to boil it down to one thing, I suppose it would be that nobody ever got better at any job by blaming everybody else whenever anything goes wrong.

I don't ever want to believe my own press clippings, good or bad.

When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy.

I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.

I was a litigation lawyer, following the crowd off the proverbial cliff, when I pressed the pause button.

I'm a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that's never healthy.