Action Bronson Quotes

I've lost perspective on what I'm doing. I think it's good for me to take a break and reassess why I'm doing it and how I'm doing it. And I think this is probably a good way to learn about that. I need a break from myself as much as I imagine the audience does.

I'm reminded of who I am, who I was, and who I'm supposed to be.

It is well we cannot see into the future. There are few boys of fourteen who would not feel ashamed of themselves at forty.

No matter where you go, you always see yourself in the rearview mirror.

The nearest anyone can come to finding himself at any given age is to find a story that somehow tells him about himself.

It is not the question, what am I going to be when I grow up; you should ask the question, who am I going to be when I grow up.

It took me several years to figure out who I am and a few more to accept what I discovered. Now, I'm in the enjoyment stage of that process and it's a happy place.

I'm going to keep on finding out the kind of man I am through my music. That's the one place I can be free. But the reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.

If we can't look at the good, bad and ugly of who we are, we are never going to progress as people - ever.

I'm really interested in stories about identity - who I am now versus who I used to be.

I discovered myself!

My lyrics come from my experiences growing up in life, trying to find out and express who I am. That's basically it. I'm not trying to be a prophet or anything like that. I'm just reflecting on life.

I'm okay with myself. I had times when I was 15 about 'Who I am?' and 'What am I?' and where I want to go, and that's behind me.

As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.

Growing up, nobody I knew even knew a writer. So it was a big adventure and something that I've wrestled with my whole life. I think it's a journey worth taking, really finding out who you are and what you do well.

It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.

I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn't say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don't know myself at all yet.

It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.

Whatever your ethnicity is, in this life you are going to be on a journey to discover who you are and how you feel about yourself.

I don't like defining myself. I just am.

At the typewriter you find out who you are.

Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.

Putting myself into categories is fun, and I think it also gives me insight into my own nature. When I see myself more clearly, I can more easily see ways that I might do things differently, to make myself happier. Categories can be unhelpful, however, when they become too all-defining, or when they become an excuse.

I lived my life one way for 35 years, for me. And then the focus came in on what I really was.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.