Kristen Wiig Quotes

It's very hard to look at the man in the mirror. Because you can't hide anything.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.

We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves.

I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake.

I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be.

I have faced up to what I am.

I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful.

You've got to demand the truth from yourself.

You know more about me than I do about myself, that's probably true.

A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life, and the people I love the most in the mirror of the blank screen. In a memoir, feelings are more important than facts, and to write honestly, I have to confront my demons.

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.

In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.

When you're writing personal stories, you have to be totally uncompromising - to the extent that you can be - about yourself. I know that if I am uber-uncompromising with myself, that gives me some latitude to write about others.

The most valuable thing I can share is the importance of living in truth. Sometimes, facing those truths can actually be your worst fear.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.

Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through.

I'm not afraid to be bluntly honest in my songs, even if it means I'm discovering things about myself that I'd rather not.

Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

I'm not lying to myself like most people.

Most writers flinch at the thought of being completely honest about themselves. So absolute honesty is what marks the true modern.

One of the commitments I made to myself when I decided to write a book was to be brutally honest, particularly about myself.