Jim Woodring Quotes

I'd made it back to the land of the living. No matter how boring or mediocre a world it might be, this was it.

It's crazy that I look at 2019 as one of my best career years of my life. If you put it all into bullet points of all the things I did, you'd be like, 'Wow that's an amazing year,' but mentally, I just feel the lowest I've ever felt.

I think I function well in most parts of my life but possibly not in that emotional side of my life.

I always think about myself as, like, a regular person. I want to be able to enjoy everything.

Consider yourself lightly; consider the world deeply.

at this point I meet Me face to face. I am Mary MacLane: of no importance to the wide bright world and dearly and damnably important to Me.

What's interesting about the movie and characters is that they're one thing to the world and another thing in their heads.

I had fooled myself into thinking that I was something important to the rest of the world.

What is more important in life than our bodies or in the world than what we look like?

The name, his true name, was weaker and more flawed than he would have liked, and he hated himself for that, but there was also much to admire within it, and the more he thought about it, the more he was able to accept the true nature of his self. He was not the best person in the world, but neither was he the worst.

The world's most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within us. The worst part is, you can't even tell who is who.

It's easy to sit on a mountaintop and tell people what to do and how to be happy. I have chosen to do that. Not because it's easy, but for a different reason, which I would reveal, if your mind was ready to handle it, which it isn't, which is also very convenient for me.

I'm still divided in my principles and what I think is right and what I'm actually able to do, whether talking about writing or being a citizen or being a husband or being a father. And I'm trying to get better.

I am afraid of her, afraid of what she says-and thrilled by it too, because it means I don't have to accept that I am smaller than I once believed.

I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.

Ego-centeredness is not individuality at all.

But I refuse to believe that I am a better actor than myself.

When you're younger you have so many ideas about yourself; everything is important. It's not when you look back, nothing is that important. It's only life.

As he mused about these things, he realized that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an adventurer in quest of his treasure.

I really don't like watching myself and for the most part I will never watch myself. I worked with Kevin Smith on Yoga Hosers and I really respected the way that he directed. He told me, "It's very important to watch yourself." So he would direct by going, "Hey come over to the screen and watch this scene." And so it was very uncomfortable for me to have to watch myself but then he talked me through the process of that and it was very helpful.

Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life.

The more committees you belong to, the less of ordinary life you will understand. When your daily round becomes nothing more than a daily round of committees you might as well be dead.

I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first drafts. But I'm one of the world's great rewriters.

Whatever we refuse to recognize about ourselves has a way of rearing its head and making itself known when we least expect it.

The most important thing for us to do as beings is to be aware of our position in the world on a micro and macro level.