Mandy Bujold Quotes

I've had a great metamorphosis in my life. I struggled for a number of years because I was identified with that image of the Seventies.

I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.

Before college, I was Cyndi, and then I think I went to college and I was like, 'You know what? Now I'm Cynthia.'

As a character, it's very interesting to play someone who wants to change their life and have him change it.

I kept asking myself if I felt different, if I was different. The answer was always yes. I was no longer nothing… How odd, I thought; it had taken my mother’s death, Father Quinel’s murder, and the desire of others to kill me to claim a life of my own.

The character we exhibit in the latter half of our life need not necessarily be, though it often is, our original character, developed further, dried up, exaggerated, or diminished. It can be its exact opposite, like a suit worn inside out.

I just pretended I was someone else until that someone else became me.

people in great trouble don't change to other people. They only change to themselves.

Maybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.

You changed my life. You changed my ways. I don't even recognize myself these days. It must be a reflection of you, only you.

That's what I love about acting, you get to find little pieces of yourself in every character you play.

I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older, you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me.

I just decided I wanted to become someone else... So I became someone else.

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

The Lord knows who we really are, what we really think, what we really do, and who we really are becoming.

Shaving my head was a millennium ritual, to not let it pass as just another New Year's Eve. A lot has happened to me in the last couple of years, personally and spiritually. I wanted to mark it for myself.

There came a moment in my life when I realized that I had stepped into another part of my life. I used to walk into a room full of people and think, do they like me? And one day I walk in and I thought, do I like them?

If R. Akiva was perhaps overly generous in judging his generation, it can perhaps be ascribed to the belief, based on his own experience, that everyone is capable of a dramatic life change.

I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.

When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else.

I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.

At 23, you can completely, literally reinvent yourself if you want to.

I was such a private person before I started 'The Talk.' I don't know what happened! It almost feels like I've started a second life. In my previous lifetime, I didn't talk about stuff. Now I'll discuss anything. It's crazy!

If I look at who I am as a person and where my interests lie, I figured that going from Tommy End to Aleister Black was almost like a possession. So, one entity to the other.

I have definitely had a big impactful change since 2010, and it's rough to look in the mirror, but it's such an important thing to do that.