Quotes About Introspection

I was a terrible actor. The analytical part of my mind never quite let go.

I feel terrible that I once put too much emphasis on material prosperity.

The problem is you tend to look back and identify mistakes, and as a consequence of feeling terrible about mistakes you say you bungled this so bad, let's get out of here.

I am subject to very powerful lows. When you have highs, you have terrible lows. When you pinpoint that you are responsible for everything that happens to you, it is very frightening.

My feelings about myself have been terrible.

You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down.

I'm a terrible interviewer. I'm not a journalist - although I have a Peabody Award - and I'm not really a late-night host. What I am is honest.

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

I do always look back and feel faintly embarrassed by anything I've done in the past. I think that's not a terrible thing, because if you don't do that, how are you growing and moving forward?

It's a very terrible thing to be Maria Callas, because it's a question of trying to understand something you can never really understand.

There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.

I think my biggest flaw is my insecurity. I'm terribly insecure. I'm plagued with insecurities 24/7.

I feel terribly misunderstood; I feel terribly misunderstood.

I'm drawn to playing characters who are terribly flawed and have no idea about it.

I don't know if I was a desirable person, not just physically but emotionally and mentally and intellectually. I still have a long way go and a lot to learn, but I'm on my way, I don't think I'm terribly attractive, but I'm comfortable with my looks.

I never felt terribly comfortable in the public eye.

I don't know if anyone necessarily looks at themselves and what they do as being terribly significant one way or another.

I'm not terribly ambitious, not terribly driven.

I'm just a perpetually confused and terrified person that is trying to be less so all the time, and music is the byproduct of that.

Again, as a gay man I look at that and say there's a hopelessness that surrounds it, but as a human being I look at it and say 'Why? Where's this disparity coming from, and why can't we as a culture and society dig deeper to examine that?' We're terrified of facing ourselves.

The thought of being on my own really terrified me. But then I realized being alone is really a cleansing thing.

So about this Fierce and Fearless award, honestly, I am often afraid. I was terrified when I lost my voice. But I've come to understand and listen to the fear. I walk towards it. I lean into it to find the information and things that it has to teach me - unless it says run, and then I run.

When I started out, I was very shy, I was terrified of meeting strangers and I hated the lime-light.

My music seems to have a bigger mission than I have, which is very soothing but also very strange because people see more in me than I see, which can be terrifying.