Quotes About Introspection

I believe you have to start with yourself, think about your bad habits and prejudices, not only in your profession but generally in life. Why do I assume that a doctor is a man? Something is indoctrinated from very early on.

It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight.

Our profession is very much like going to a cocktail party, you check out the guest list.

I think self-criticism is sort of a given when you're an actor. It's also about being curious and not being flippant. Anyone who accepts being in this noble profession is automatically self-critical.

You question, as anybody should, the overarching worth of your profession, right? So that's a question I've often asked myself.

Writing is a lonely profession.

You never meet other screenwriters because it's such a lonely profession.

That's why I wanted to be an actor - to be everybody. Through all those different people I can learn about myself.

While I'm working on something, every single part of me is in it. But then, once it's done, I leave that place behind. I usually don't like to revisit it. So it's almost like listening to a different person.

When I see myself on screen, I don't even feel like it's me - it's like it's a completely different person.

Anybody who's dealt with addiction and depression knows that sometimes they can make you forget who you are and kind of bring out a different person, somebody you don't know as well.

Growing up I was a different person than I am now. Now I'm the quiet, laid-back one, but I used to be the wild one in the group. I was like the bully.

Sometimes the best thing to do is to take a step back and get a little bit of a different perspective and re-evaluate things.

When I look back at the record and listen to it, I can sort of see where I was at when I was making it - these brief little moments, different places I was at emotionally.

The thing is that I never felt beautiful. I really never did. I think I can change my looks and be different things, but I've never thought of myself as this face.

My self encompasses a lot of different things.

I'll lie awake and think about scenes I could have done better, that I could have filmed in a different way.

The songs I write are about searching, and they're ambiguous - always to be understood in different ways.

It's hard to be at your best and to know exactly what is your best at all times because even when you do see yourself, you think you could be better, and you often feel that there is something you could have done differently.

When you mature, you also get more secure about yourself. You see things differently.

It's not a case of: 'Read this book and then you'll think differently. I've written this book, and I don't think differently.

People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself.

I do feel like a loner but I think it's because I look at things differently than other people.

I look back on my work and I think, 'Oh, why didn't I do that differently?'