Sheck Wes Quotes

Without travel I would have wound up a little ignorant white Southern female, which was not my idea of a good life.

I have a great family by the way, but you need to find people who can pull something out from you that might be otherwise unseen.

A lot of my world-view is formed by the places I've been.

I think traveling made me who I am. When I was 16, I was an exchange student in England, and that was the year that I kind of feel like I was on the road going one direction in life, and it just kind of shifted me over, and I finished high school, and I went traveling for three more years instead of going to college.

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 didn't get on TV until I was 30, which is really fortunate because you are who you are at that point.

My experience at Bournemouth made me who I am today.

I personally can barely remember what I was like before I came to college, what made me happy or worried or confident. I don't remember what I expected in my future, except that 'President of the United States' was about halfway up the ladder.

I think the teenage sides of myself have informed my adult self.

I've learned a lot in life, travelling, living abroad, just in the school of life.

I'm just interested in carving out a meaningful life.

I feel like if I wasn't to go to jail, I probably wouldn't be the person I am - I wouldn't.

When I came to Cambridge, I was involved in the ward for a little bit, but I did have a very gradual process of trying to work out what I thought a good life consisted of.

I think as you get older, you find out more and more about yourself and what you like and what you don't like.

With doing the movies I've done I don't think I would be half the person I am today.

You realize that especially when you're writing a book like this, looking back on your life, that there's just such a depth of understanding you acquire over time with the help of the people who love you that that's when you can really get down to what you really think and believe.

I've grown so much as a person through playing Gabrielle, much less living in New Zealand and being with all of these people that I can't imagine my life being any different.

There are defining moments in one's life when you learn about yourself, and you deposit that knowledge in the experience account, so you can draw on it at some later date.

Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.

I am so far more secure and more grounded and more know who I am than when I was in my 20s.

I think I can see more clearly now - about how the pattern of past experiences has shaped who I am and the characters I have played - and I'm grateful for that.

I've been things and seen places.

I think there is a point in every teenager's life where they are forced to come into themselves.

I think you just learn so much about yourself over the years.

My goal is not necessarily to be an inspiration. I think, if anything, I want to continue to be inspired and to continue to grow as a person.