Tom Cullen Quotes

It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.

I'm not a super emotional person, so that's one reason I love acting - it makes me deal with myself in that kind of way.

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

I can't imagine, as a human being, not being able to grow.

It just seemed hedonistic when I first started acting. It was a pleasurable thing. But as I look back on it now, I understand that it was a journey of the self for me.

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

Every role that one does - at least, that's what happens in my case - becomes a sort of therapy.

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

With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

My inspiration comes from my real life experiences.

Seriously I suspected I was a good actor, though I didn't know it during 'Monsoon Wedding.' Now I realize the more I learn, the less I know about acting... and life.

I want to explore more sides of humanity and myself. That's what acting is about.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

As a human being, I'm work in process.

Yeah, it is, because it's a real discovery of your inner resources, you know. That's what my character is all about and what my playing is all about. But to get up there and just go inside and draw out something that makes you feel good first and foremost.

I think the only reason I wanted to do modeling, really, was because I knew I wasn't ready to act; I knew I didn't have enough life experience, and I knew that doing photo shoots was a way of acting. Playing a character each shoot and being able to just emerge yourself in these awkward experiences - it was amazing.

Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

I've been involved in social activism my entire life, and I would argue that many people involved in social activist movements have done very little work on themselves.

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

My life. The life I'm living that's where all my inspiration comes from. Real life experiences.

Acting was a way of me finding myself, which I think is the case of a lot of actors, regardless of where they come from.

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'm finding myself. I'm finding things I'm good at, things I need to work at.