Josh Radnor Quotes

I'm still trying to figure out what the right line is between myself and the people I play. Sometimes I go too far one way or too far the other.

I'm very much in a mindset that I take myself out of anything that I'm not involved in.

Anybody who dedicates himself to exploring the human condition, there's always a detached eye that's watching. In any situation, a little part of me is observing it, to see if there are any raw materials to create something else later.

I live my everyday life as a person, and I react to my photos from a certain distance. When I look at a photo, I detach myself and look at it as a product - not as me, Isabella.

I get emotionally attached with every film I do, and that stops me from being critical. I can't fight my emotions.

What I have learned from my work up to now, is to try to be open, but also protect myself by not letting the good and the evil get too much importance.

When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind.

A person who's only suffering can't write a poem. There are choices to be made, and you need to be objective.

The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else.

I think my narrative is actually pretty interesting if I step back from it and don't engage too much in it, personally or emotionally.

I don't read articles about myself. I try to distance myself from it. Reading about yourself is nice, but in the long run, it doesn't help. Concentration has to be in the right place.

Whatever affect any of my films have on audiences, I just kind of stop at the door. I make them and I just don't go outside after they're over.

I don't take anything personally. I am a secondary character in other people's stories. I know that whatever people say about me is just a projection of their image of me. It has nothing to do with me.

I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.

I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I actually write about myself, I get very confused.

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.

We finally sat down and asked ourselves how much of our lives we wanted to give everybody. We had just given a little too much, and it started to become a burden.

The best work I can do is to take myself as much as I can out of it and get it as simple as I can.

Most of the time, I don't really give people a chance. I have a wall up. I'm always protecting who I am. Thinking about my brand. I make it hard on people. Sometimes, it's a good thing. Sometimes, it's a bad thing.

I'm more than a songwriter. I'm a creative person. Some people you just always see. I won't allow you to see me unless it makes sense. There's a reason to see me.

The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.

I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no interest in writing about my own life or intruding in the privacy of those around me.

We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.

Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.

So when I looked at pictures and produced my calendar and edited the pictures, it wasn't just about looking at myself and thinking I'm attractive. I try to take myself out of it and get into the whole process of putting it all together.