Quotes About Introspection

I can do without a television or a telephone, I think.

I don't listen to music. I don't watch television, I don't read.

Sometimes as human beings, we're so contradictory - we may say something or do something and completely contradict ourselves. That's what I'm learning to embrace in television - not knowing what's going to happen.

I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles.

My cartoon life is in my office, and it's very separate and getting very in my own head. My television life is I'm begging one of the actors to say the line in the way I'd like them to.

Usually when I see myself in a film or on television, there's about a six-month period where I can't look at it because all I'll see are the mistakes. I'm just appalled by the person that I see.

If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name.

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

The lies we tell ourselves are the most subtle of all lies.

When a body moves, it's the most revealing thing. Dance for me a minute, and I'll tell you who you are.

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.

I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness.

I'm a fortune teller, but I don't like to know my future.

I think I'm a bit like Ishmael in 'Moby Dick': a story teller and an observer in his own crisis.

I don't mind telling a dark side.

Telling my story has not been easy for me. I've had to dredge up memories I would have rather forgotten. The lonely, anxiety-ridden months I avoided others, attempting to hide from interrogations about my social life.

We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves.

Everybody was telling me I should just stand alone on my first project, and I started to see what they were saying.

You break up, and you say something pathetic, or you don't even speak at all when someone's telling you they don't love you anymore. But then you think about it five minutes later, and you have all these great comebacks!

Telling a story is the way of exploring so many different things - human behavior, society, whatever existence.

Everyone kept telling me, Just be yourself. Be yourself. I kept thinking, there's got to be more to it than that!

But I have to grow out of it, because it's very boring, really. Even when you're telling people how crap you are, you're still banging on about yourself.

It's like all the signs were telling me that I shouldn't be a boxer, so I quit.