Fred Ward Quotes

I think that's one of the things that's missing in a lot of people's lives. That's finding out what works for you and doing that.

You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.

When you find your voice, your life takes on grace.

I find myself both as man and as myself something more determined and distinctive, at pitch, more distinctive and higher pitched than anything else I see.

You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.

I look for myself but find no one. I belong to the chrysanthemum hour of bright flowers placed in tall vases. I should make an ornament of my soul.

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

To me, the most interesting part of 'True Blood' is that the entire crux of the show is based on identity and finding your true identity.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

Every character is asking: 'What's my place? Why am I here? I don't want the answer to be 'Just because.' You find your own purpose. Each finds the reason to be here and how to contribute.

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.

It is when I am working that the real me comes out - that is when I am the most real and honest.

If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.

I don't have dreams. How can I say it? I myself am a dream.

Trying to give an individual a voice has always kind of been my mission in my life. As an actor, I've always seen that was something that needed to be done. You need to find that voice inside of you so that you can stand up and be who you really are.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

It's not about finding a home so much as finding yourself.

One of my problems is to find the self.

There's something else that makes a woman interesting, something beyond being young or being old. And I'm going to find out what that something else is before I die, I hope.

To get what you want out of life, all you can really do is find out who you are, and do that.

When you forget everything, there only remains yourself - and that is not enough.

I come out of real life.

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.