Quotes About Introspection

Facts make you face stuff about yourself you'd rather not see.

No matter what writers say, most stories are about ourselves. The facts might change a little, but not much.

When a campaign doesn't go my way, I always take a step back, look at the facts, and try to figure out what we could learn from that experience.

I never fail to feel let down when I see myself on the screen.

Many of us stay in situations that don't serve us because we don't want to confront the fact that we've failed.

I had to admit I'd pretty much failed at the whole low-profile thing.

When I started out I was a failed actor.

If I'm astonished by what I've done, then I know I've been somewhere in the making of it but not during the making of it. Only after the fact. If I'm not astonished, then I've failed in the making of it.

I'm about growth for myself. So if I've made a lot of mistakes, and I haven't learnt from them, then I've failed as a human being.

But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them.

I'm pretty lowbrow. It's a failing.

Nine out of ten people who are failing blame their failure on somebody else. And that is the common denominator of failure.

My failures have made me look at myself in a way I've never wanted to before.

We're beautiful devices. The devices work well; we're all experts in what we do. But when the mechanism fails, those failures can tell you a lot about how the mind works.

Having failures in life is important to understand where, exactly, you stand.

At 49, I can say something I never would have said when I was a player, that I'm a better person because of my failures and disgraces.

My mind is led astray by every faint rustle.

An actor's life is fairly lonely.

I was once a fairly angry person.

I always thought I was a fairly meek individual.

I'm somebody who hasn't really felt fairly confident in my own life.

I was fairly rubbish as a player.

Deal faithfully and truly with your own soul.

The men have piled up in my past, have fallen trenchantly through my life, like an avalanche that doesn't mean to kill but is going to bury me alive just the same.