Kalki Koechlin Quotes

I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.

I'm interested in pursuing roles that allow me to push against my own walls, my own constraints as a human being, and to find out where I'm capable of going. In real life, I'm not very good at feeling emotions, so I like to do it through my work.

Writing music on your own makes you think a lot about your life. Who are you? Would you change anything about yourself? This is where it comes from.

Through therapy and a lot of thinking and writing my memoirs, I've been able to use my life as a lesson.

You are who you are at this moment because of everything that's ever happened to you, everything that you carried forward for yourself.

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.

I believe that self-discovery is an ongoing thing.

My life hasn't been all about politics.

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.

Most of what I've learnt is too personal or controversial to share, but nevertheless, experiences have helped me understand things better and have been necessary for what my journey in future will be.

Acting's not therapy, but it can be therapeutic.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.

I believe that I have such a vanilla life. But maybe I come with a different perspective. I'm always trying to improve myself.

Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date.

Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly.

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.

I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means.

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.

I'm not a super emotional person, so that's one reason I love acting - it makes me deal with myself in that kind of way.

I do find acting cathartic.

It is therapeutic for me to act, to be able to slip into somebody else's skin, and know it's not you, but know that you bring a lot of yourself to it. At times in my life it's provided me with a lot of confusion. It's also provided me with a lot of discovery.