Quotes About Introspection

Sometimes I get frustrated with my own self because I'm such a perfectionist.

I'm such a perfectionist that I see every mistake that I make.

I'm a perfectionist. I'm very hard on myself and very critical.

I'm my hardest critic, I expect the best of myself, I'm a perfectionist.

I will always do R. Kelly - I'm not perfect, but I'm perfectly me.

And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don't think anyone in my family would really feel I'd done them an injustice by saying that. We didn't see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.

My desk faces the water, and I'm perfectly happy sitting there. I'm never lonely.

When I write, I'm sort of old-fashioned in the sense that I like to write something that I feel I could just perform alone, obviously, because I do that a lot in concert.

I don't think much about how my past films have performed at the box office.

My experience for myself as a performer is not one of high expectations.

I never wanted to perform and never proclaimed myself to be a performer.

There's definitely a loneliness and, like, an internal element to being a performer.

We aren't people who believe that just because we're performers our opinions on everything need to be known.

I'm not very good at being a performing monkey.

Well, I'm not one of those people who needs the limelight. If I'm performing, that's what I'm doing. If I'm not, I don't long for it. I don't need the approval of an audience, or applause.

Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.

I was an extroverted kid and performed, like, acting and singing. Then, the older I got, I realized I enjoyed performing things that I came up with myself more and I enjoyed making people laugh more than making people cry or think.

I like the feeling of not knowing where to look when you are only performing for one person or watching someone practice. It creates this kind of a strange in-between, which can be mirrored in the feeling of making a painting.

For a lot of actors, there's a sort of code of honor around playing something other than yourself, which I just don't have. I love feeling like I'm - I won't even say acting out, but performing in some deep seam of my consciousness or my family's consciousness or my past. That's really amusing to me.

I can interpret my own work honestly. And performing by myself seems to focus the attention in the right places.

I think there are perhaps two ways in which one can begin.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

He knew a lot about his grandparents - and perhaps he feels he's been endowed with abilities to go into people's heads who are long dead - but, to a certain extent, he's making it up.

Perhaps I scare people. I don't know why.