Alice Walker Quotes

I think that in the last four or five years I've constantly struggled with the balance in my life.

My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession.

I don't think we have a right to enjoy our neuroses; in fact, I believe that we have a duty not to. But we cannot walk away from ourselves. Who else is there to become?

I got a lot of paradoxes in my life. I guess I'm a real confused person, but there are some focused parts to my life now, and I'm slowly trying to put all the pieces back together.

I'm so many people. They shock me sometimes. I wish I was just me! I used to think I was going crazy, until I discovered that some people I admired were like that to.

Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.

I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal.

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

The balancing act of motherhood and a career, and being a wife, is something that I don't think I'll ever perfect, but I love the challenge of it.

I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.

Anybody can get lost in themselves.

The students realize that it's their life I'm talking about: it's out of balance, they're struggling to put it into balance. How are they going to do it?

I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.

I am actually going to two therapists right now. I don't know, I actually feel like therapy has just made me more uncomfortable.

Balancing school, acting, and a social life can be difficult.

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

'Different' is such a good word. For me, ever since I was little, I always felt that something was off. And I just didn't have the resources to - I just didn't know what it was.

I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come along is incredibly important.

Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

You need a balance in life between dealing with what's going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over.

I think that's what keeps you grounded - having your own life that's not directed by your job.

Don't get a movie confused with real life. I'm a well-rounded human being like everyone else.

You know when you read that someone has to leave a show or a tour because they had 'nervous exhaustion'? Well, I had one of those and discovered that I was quite close to death. I always assumed that my lifestyle was going to take me at an early age, but when it was actually occurring I was, 'Not yet!' I pulled back.

When I wasn't working I didn't know what to do with myself and sort of didn't exist, in a way, when I wasn't working, so I was like two different people. I am not like that anymore.