George Clooney Quotes

We write about ourselves because we know about ourselves.

Writing is a type of therapy for me. I'm always trying to break down what happened, and why I felt a certain way.

When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.

When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.'

The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul life during three months of my nineteenth year. I wrote then all the time, just as I do now, but, though the book is in diary form, it is not a diary.

I used cartoons as diaries. I still do. They're my way of figuring out the world, what's happening to me or what I'm thinking about.

If I can write it, I can cope. And I've been writing many books, but in every book, I try to explore something in my own soul that I need to solve, I need to understand.

The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.

All my shows are therapy, trying to navigate interesting subjects so I can work them out and to be honest and say some things are beyond the wit of this man.

One is constantly trying to figure out what came together in one's childhood. Lots of people spend significant portions of their lives in therapy - especially in the States - trying to work out who they are. I'm certain there is a little of that in the business of writing. That would explain why certain images and themes recur.

We can't see ourselves very clearly. This I learned as a songwriter. I'm forever trying to figure out what my own truth is.

The real preparation for education is the study of one's self.

I think it's increasingly hard to have deep self-knowledge without entering the darkness in some way.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.

When I got to write for the 'Battlefield' record, it was almost therapeutic. I had gone through a few things in the two years prior and it was really nice to take those thoughts and emotions and get them out. I definitely want to hone that side of my artistry.

All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.

My personality doesn't interest me.

I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.

I am really puzzled to understand myself.

I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.