Catherine Hardwicke Quotes

I started to study, because I knew I had to learn a lot about myself as an actor; you can't act the same as you did as a child.

I'm just looking always for characters that change, because I want to get better, as an actor and as a person.

I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people.

I think almost everything in life is life-experience, personality-driven.

Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. It's always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself.

When characters change on screen, it makes you feel better about yourself. You think, 'Oh I change too, I'm constantly becoming a better person.'

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Know yourself to improve yourself.

I've done teaching and things like that because if you're acting, you're becoming other human beings, and you need to have time to find who you are as well.

When you practice Buddhism, you have to always self-reflect, and you can't avoid your problems. That makes me understand human beings better. I feel that the more I do that in my own life, the more I can see how to play a character.

Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.

They say that people teach what they need to learn. By adopting the role of happiness teacher, if only for myself, I was trying to find the method to conquer my particular faults and limitations.

At first, I didn't realize it was gonna be a character. I just thought I was gonna be doing me.

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.

As I learn more about myself, I think people learn more about me as well. It seems to correlate that way. I learn how to represent myself more as it goes on.

I think the better actor I am, the better person I become.

What I use when I'm acting comes from what I learn about myself.

The more I grow as a person, the more I grow as an actor.

One of the beautiful things about music is it gives you an opportunity to learn how to tell the truth, and it's a life-long learning process.

What I enjoy the most about 'Insecure' is it holds up a mirror to real life. If you're paying attention and you're watching consciously, you are able to make better decisions about who you are, the people that are around you.

The more that we self-analyze ourselves, the nicer we are to people and to ourselves, and the more we understand each other.

I think your resources are feeling. Your resources are depth. Your resources are learning. Your resources are touching and feeling. And for me, sobriety helps and aids all of that.

In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.

It's a real luxury to be able to develop with your character.