Quotes About Introspection

I make me. At 18, I decided I wasn't going to have an unconstructed self ever. I was going to be the composer, the designer, the architect of me. It's been really fun.

The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens of their thought and sentiments, that I do not desire the company of the majority of the senior class of Vassar.

I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.

Are we not all desperate one way or another?

I think a lot of comedians are desperate to show their serious side, but I got that off my chest early on in my career.

I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.

There's a lot of people desperately seeking to find 'the one,' and I think we should learn to be more at peace with ourselves.

My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate.

I don't find myself so exercised by a desperation to be new.

I think all of us, under certain circumstances, could be capable of some very despicable acts. And that's why, over the years, in my movies I've had characters who didn't care what people thought about them. We try to be as true to them as possible and maybe see part of ourselves in there that we may not like.

I've ended up becoming my mother in some respects, despite my eight years of analysis!

I've never thought of myself as a writer. I still don't, despite all the writing I've done.

I don't stay in accent or anything, but internally, I get quite dark and destroy myself a little bit. But that's what I do, and I enjoy it. It's how I do my work.

By 2012, my game was shot. You're sitting on your chair watching players' leagues below you play shots you can't. That destroyed me.

It wasn't so much destroying my dancing, it was destroying me.

I love stories about people who are smart enough to know that what they're doing is destroying them, but that knowing that doesn't help them.

Often, especially young artists, you feel like you should be doing something. And I think that can be very destructive because creativity is about connecting with the stuff that's deep inside you and making something out of that.

I feel so detached from what I am on the outside. The person I am on the inside is very separate.

Is that bad? Detachment in the sense that I can't be going to every party, showing my face, talking to the press and telling them what I am wearing to the bathroom or where I eat. I would rather see a purpose to that.

I've always been a people-watcher, and as an actor, later, I just mined all those little details.

A woman can see a woman so clearly - faluts, excellences, details - all are so clear to her.

I play a detective, very close to myself actually.

When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.

Everybody is determined by his own experience.