Quotes About Introspection

After one hundred days of confinement following a bone marrow transplant, I rejoiced in taking short walks to a nearby park as I was writing 'Girl in Hyacinth Blue.' The uncertainty of my survival made every blade of grass gorgeous in its green intensity, lifting itself up, doing its part to make the world beautiful.

To me, acting used to be just, 'Get my face out there, get girls, make a little bit of money, make my mom proud.' It was just like sports. But there were moments in 'Moonlight' that I really felt like I had to know why he is the way he is. Or just people in general - why this person walks around with a frown on their face instead of a smile.

Take lots of walks. It's the best way to discover your world, both inner and outer.

In my earlier albums like 'Another Year' and 'Just A Boy,' I always saw myself as a bit of a loser - the kind of guy who takes a drink and walks into a wall instead of through the door.

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the dumbest of you all?

Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.

Sometimes if I'm in my head before a take, I'll just like to reach out to the closest thing to me - the wall or a sharp edge - and just push into it. That way, my physical experience is totally contemporaneous and not in the clouds.

Sometimes when I perform, and it's obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.

I hit a brick wall one day, and I spent a lot of time by myself learning about me and who I am and what I want and don't want.

If someone had asked me when we started 'Bonanza' what was Ben Cartwright like, I couldn't have articulated very much.

You probably learn more on the bench.

I'm not used to being on the bench.

The best way to meditate is through meditation itself.

I tend to write songs critiquing myself. The best way for me to deal with stuff is to write a song about it... That's not to say all my songs are like that.

Fiction is the best way I know how to think something through.

I do my best work alone. I travel alone a lot.

So I felt like I had to become a better person, a better man when it comes to my life and everything I have done and will do. I had to figure that part out myself. When it came to the way I was thinking, it was all about, 'Oh, make this play, get these stats, get these accolades.' I felt like that's what was important, and that's never true.

I'm working to be a better person.

I think the better actor I am, the better person I become.

Most of my films seem to be about people bewildered by the world around them, who don't fit into it and are trying to understand it.

I think every leader has to be willing to examine their own biases.

The Bible says, as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.

I'm not a big family person. I'm more of a loner.