Dee Rees Quotes

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.

George Foreman. A miracle. A mystery to myself. Who am I? The mirror says back. The George you was always meant to be. Wasn't always like that. Used to look in the mirror and cried a river.

I think Ellenor is embarrassed and ashamed and has devoted all of her energy to the law and to helping other people get justice because it's too difficult for her to face her own struggle for justice.

There was a period when I had a hard time reconciling all the different parts of me in a way that I thought would make sense to others.

Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself, in fact, confused.

I've had times in my life when I really haven't been able to figure myself out.

I just realized one day that I was so unhappy. And not only that, but I didn't even like the person that I was. I didn't even know who I was. And so 'Shatter Me' is about first discovering what was under the shell and then learning to love that person that was under it. And then not being afraid to break free.

Identity has been such an explosive territory for me... so hard, so painful at times.

I think this idea of fighting the enemy within is sort of more interesting than fighting an external enemy.

I did a lot of struggling with my identity trying to figure out who the heck I was. I had to face my demons.

It feels weird to say there's more to me than that, like I'm being overdramatic, and a tear rolls down my cheek. But, no - I do like I feel like there's more to me than just baseball.

I feel that I fell somewhat under that category where I was using fighting to kind of run from my own self to an extent, to kind of numb the things that I thought about myself. When I had fighting taken away, I was forced to look at myself in the mirror and say, 'What are you without fighting?'

I took his wildness from him and tried to fold it into myself, filling up the empty spaces all those second place finishes left behind.

Even as a child, even as my blood-past was drained from me, I understood that if I were strong enough to accept it, I was being offered a second history.

All through the night, she battled herself. Or battled to know herself. She fell apart and then put herself back together and then she fell apart again and put herself back together, over and over.

I don't know who I am. But I do know who I'm not. I have occasionally tried playing people I'm definitely not, and that wasn't a very pleasant experience.

I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else who can say this.

I've had the longest mid-life crisis ever.

I was not fighting myself at all as I used to.

It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.

Sometimes you have to confront your demons and sometimes even let them loose to genuinely find a place where you can gain some understanding.

There are a lot of films where I play characters that are about the windows to the interior person rather than the exterior.

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.

I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.