Eleanor Catton Quotes

If you want to end your isolation, you must be honest about what you want at a core level and decide to go after it.

All stories are just stories of a character changing.

I love heroes that really go through ordeals, and they come out the other end completely changed.

No one rises above who he or she has been without first having fallen down. The best time - in fact, the only time - to make a real change in your life is in the moment of seeing the need for it. He who hesitates always gets lost in the hundred reasons why tomorrow is a better day to get started.

We do not have to accept our current circumstances. We will change them. We are Americans. That's what we do.

With a lot of comedies, the characters go on a journey, and they come back, and they're the exact same people.

In the beginning Remo is a very New York street cop who changes and is changed as he moves along.

When characters change on screen, it makes you feel better about yourself. You think, 'Oh I change too, I'm constantly becoming a better person.'

I had to find the courage to turn my life around.

If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers.

You cannot change everything you face and you cannot also change anything without facing it.

Who you are and what you think of yourself is constantly changing.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

When I reflect on the losses I've experienced, I've come to believe that those experiences were transformative, that they shaped who I am.

As a character, it's very interesting to play someone who wants to change their life and have him change it.

The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last.

If you don’t jump, the wings never come.

Some people spend their whole lives looking for themselves, yet our self is the one thing we surely cannot lose (how like a cheap philosopher I am become, staying in this benighted place). From the moment we are conceived it is the pattern in our blood and our bones are printed through with it like sticks of seaside rock. Nora, on the other hand, says that she’s surprised anyone knows who they are, considering that every cell and molecule in our bodies has been replaced many times over since we were born.

You don't have the same mentality as you did five years ago - even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

I am never going to stop evolving and growing.

As human beings, we can relate to our dark aspects and trying to overcome our dark aspects as Xena did.

I found my feet in my 40s: got divorced at 40, two years of drinking, and then, at 42, I became sober. My 30s were the most boring phase.

'Pose' has basically been a trip for everyone. We're all in different phases of our individual evolutions, but we've embarked on the journey together.

I'm not the same young man I was when I first got into music.

We're all works in progress and we'll all keep growing.