James Joyce Quotes

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

I really do think that dreaming and fantasies are very important to the human psyche and the soul. That's why I want to act.

The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.

Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.

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.

My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in.

To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.

Ideas and thoughts and creativity is more of who I am than football.

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. The individual must stay true to themselves.

There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.

I mean, I am my own fantasy.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.

I have quite a rich inner life, and I'm constantly looking for a way to express that. I haven't found it yet in acting. When you're playing a character, you're only going to find outlets for very specific parts of your inner world.

Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.

If you can write it, I can be it.

The next frontier is not in front of us but inside us.

I just want to be the greatest man that I can be while I'm alive, and in that, you have to find the truth. Find the hard truth about yourself.

Acting is revealing the truth that is already within you and that reflects the character that you're doing.

Seeing what you want from life from the inside out, rather than from the outside in, is the most important thing.

Our abilities are limited only by our perceptions.

I have so much built up inside. To be able to put what I have in my head into real life is just an amazing thing.

What you are looking for is within you