Rory Kinnear Quotes

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

As I learn more about myself, I think people learn more about me as well. It seems to correlate that way. I learn how to represent myself more as it goes on.

What I use when I'm acting comes from what I learn about myself.

Wouldn't have no knowledge of wealth, without no knowledge of self.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

My personality doesn't interest me.

We have to really educate ourselves in a way about who we are, what our real identity is.

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.

Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou art. All that is without thee also is within.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.

I really do feel like I know myself, and I'm so happy to be by myself and I'm so happy to be with other people; I just know myself really, really well, and I think that is an amazing thing. I think a lot of people don't know themselves that well.

I'm not crazy. But I am different. I'm still learning about myself.

For the moment, I'm concentrating on my own stuff.

A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you.

I've done thousands of interviews in my life, and it's a format that I quite enjoy, because I think of questions in interviews as an opportunity to sort of gauge my growth in a way. It gives me an idea of how I'm navigating this world that I'm in.

I don't think I've ever been moulded but I think I am always learning.

The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.