Adrian Tomine Quotes

I believe acting to be my own journey through connection more than anything else, but that's only my take on it.

No, I feel like my personality probably influenced the character, more than the character influenced me.

I wrote an episode for 'thirtysomething,' and a producer said, 'That's really good, but what is it about? What does it say about you? What questions are you asking yourself?' I had never thought about that. This comment changed who I was, because it made me look at my own soul, the dark corners in my soul, and accept that dark side.

I think it took us being apart to really understand... who we were as Individuals, outside of the Go-Go's.

Binaries aside, we are the products of our relationships with our identities - cities we have built, bodies we have embraced, kindred souls we've cherished, our memories, our dreams, the fears we hide, the pain we hold - identities that cannot be reduced to a collection of labels.

The first question in any interactive process with another is: now Who Am I, and Who Do I Want to Be, in relationship to that?

I changed in a lot of ways, mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually.

When you're younger, you want to project an image of yourself through your work, but now, I just want to make something honest.

Every one of us at some point in our lives has had the struggle with identity.

If you're not learning as a human, growing as a human, you can't grow as an actor. You're just churning things you've already thought.

I personally can barely remember what I was like before I came to college, what made me happy or worried or confident. I don't remember what I expected in my future, except that 'President of the United States' was about halfway up the ladder.

As we wrestle with questions of identity, we imitate those actions we think best fill an ambiguity we have within ourselves. And that goes for everyone; no one is free from this condition.

Sometimes I feel like being an intellectual. Sometimes I like to just be aggressive and all the way in my feelings. Sometimes I might be emotional, or sometimes I might drag on the track and be lazy. I just like to share the different states of existence of Kevin Gates with the rest of the world.

I have definitely had a big impactful change since 2010, and it's rough to look in the mirror, but it's such an important thing to do that.

I talk about past relationships in my book, all of which I would never regret, as they played huge parts in who I am today.

I think the teenage sides of myself have informed my adult self.

I'm just a perpetually confused and terrified person that is trying to be less so all the time, and music is the byproduct of that.

I had played on the police athletic league, but my father had a unique thing, he always said, 'Before you start going to basketball camp and doing all the things, you should learn about yourself first before somebody else starts telling you how to play.'

Without meaning to sound crass, I've never had any psychological... help. It's because I feel my work is so revealing about who I am and what I am trying to understand about myself. It's a therapeutic process.

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

I'm a laid-back, shy kinda dude, and it wasn't until when I was 19 that my life kind of changed.

I do think of 'The Idiot,' in a way, as a self-standing book about a certain struggle to make meaning, the struggle for a girl to find meaning outside of the romance plot.

I don't even know who I am. All I know is that I am the sibling, daughter, sister, the friend of somebody, and I need to know who I am outside of that.

Beijing was a huge slap in the face, and it forced me to look at myself. I have to realise that this is my life.

Who isn't difficult? I'm difficult as an artist.