Quotes About Introspection

I'm quite hypercritical of myself. It's a very Scottish thing, always thinking that you've got to be that bit better than everyone else to be good enough.

I can't watch most of my work. Once I come on screen, all I can think of is 'What am I doing with my hands?' or 'Why did I lean that way?' or 'What's that look on my face?' It's too difficult to not focus on evaluating my acting.

I can't watch myself on screen without dying a little bit inside. And there are lots of moments when I think, 'What am I doing as an actor? I can't act!'

I never like seeing myself on screen.

I don't like seeing myself on screen. Whenever I see or hear myself, I think, 'What is that eejet doing now?' I'm in the wrong business. I don't like the limelight.

I'm the Emily Dickinson of screenplays.

I can't imagine that anybody is as screwed up as I am.

At the end of the day, you have to sit with the scripts and decide where your heart is.

Every time I think I'd want a huge, huge career, I realize I'd go crazy under that kind of scrutiny.

My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search.

I don't go in search of ideas; I try to let them find me.

I think every writer is in search of the truth. We are trying to psychoanalyze ourselves.

My whole life has been a search for finding myself, pretty much.

I'm always searching. It's the reason I'm here. It's not really about music: it's about searching for meaning.

My nature is... well... I'm a searcher by nature. I'm constantly searching for something; that's why I have a song called 'Looking for Something.' How do I do it? I read a lot of spiritual books; I meditate.

I've always been searching. What am I going to do with all this - searching for that place where I could be me.

I often feel that when people have affairs, it has more to do with something they're searching for in themselves than anything else.

I read incessantly, searching for the things that might move me.

I'd be lying to you if I said I had not done some soul searching.

Even when I'm older, I might be in a different head space, but I want to be able to go back to 'True 2 Myself' and remember this season. It's really for me.

I'm so secluded. Very alone.

If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.

I always second-guess what I am doing.

If you don't second-guess yourself, then you are not trying to get better.