Quotes About Introspection

I'm not ashamed to say I fear something.

I always go into a film situation depressed and fearful.

At my worst, I was so fearful of death I'd think about it for six hours a day.

Once death was really close to me, I suddenly became very fearful of it. I think that lit a fire in me like, 'What do you have to say before it happens?'

I don't think I am fearless. I am just me.

You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.

I think a lot of my anxieties and fears are things that are very abstract.

I can't speak for everyone, but the kind of comedy that makes me laugh are the ones that kind of make me cringe, and kind of make me look inside my own fears, my own anxieties.

All of my work is sort of fed by a question, a need to understand the world and why the world is what it is.

When I sat down to write 'Rules of Civility,' I didn't write it for anybody but myself. I wasn't trying to make my mark or make money. I wasn't anxious about feeding my kids or whether my father would be proud of me.

I want people to feel the times where they don't feel good. You should dive into those emotions, because that's what I do with my music.

I can admit and say that I have feelings.

I like to put people in their feelings.

Sometimes I feel like I used to be a person that liked to express himself a lot and put my feelings out there.

Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time.

I'm not someone that always feels confident about himself.

I know where my body's at, know how it feels, you know.

I was never the feisty kind of activist.

There's no better way of learning from your experiences than having an open and honest conversation with yourself about why you fell short.

I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.

No, I don't have a feminine side. I've never been in touch with it. And the day I get in touch with my feminine side is the day I retire.

I would like to think I am feminist in some sorts.

Oh, am I a feminist? I usually say that I was an accidental feminist. Really, I was just being me.

I never realized I was a feminist.