Joseph Lowery Quotes

But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you. Like a puzzle. Vous comprenez? Like you have missed the beginning of a story and now you are in the middle of it, trying to understand.

The thing I found in correlation with my studies as a history major was that experience taught me you have to figure out your background, where you come from, who you are, and what you want. All of that propelled me into following acting because I had to develop characters as well as develop characters' history which is most important.

There's a lot about discovering who you are and how difficult that is. And it never stops.

One of the sad things, I think, about the younger generation, quite frankly, is they have less sense of yesterday. And if you don't know who you were, you don't really know who you are.

If you don't know your history, you don't have an idea how you channel things in your life. Knowing that history, I was able to fulfil my goals.

In many ways, I think I'm still forming my ideas about my own identity in this world.

I'm insanely curious about life and everyone's story and where they come from and how they got to be who they are.

As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.

How can we know who we are and where we are going if we don't know anything about where we have come from and what we have been through, the courage shown, the costs paid, to be where we are?

If people do not know where they have been and what they have been they don't know what they are. They don't know where they going to have to go or where they still have to be.

I've had a lot of different lives. I was adopted, I grew up in Nebraska, and then I went to Northwestern... Then I had this really extraordinary, different life than my parents.

I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on.

One is made by all the things around one. There are many things that have made one. For a writer to go around looking for things that have made him is asking for trouble. It's like giving a character to yourself. Can't do it. Can't do it. These things are just there. Is that enough?

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

I do worry about young people in the business who have experienced a lot of success and are punted around doing those manic publicity trails, when you don't really know who you are yet.

I'm always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how they want to be seen. And the older you get, the world keeps telling you different things about yourself. And how people either adjust to those things and let go of adolescent notions. Or they dig in deeper.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.

But I think that your entire life is a process of sorting out some of those early messages that you got.

In the last couple of years I've been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to find out, who I am, It's something I think I'll be doing for the rest of my life.

My problem was I let myself become known before I knew myself.

I'm always thinking about identity. And the middle-school years are a time of exploring questions about who you are and who you want to be. For the first time, you see the world in a broader sense.

For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.

Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.

One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going.

I am turning into the person I knew I would.