Kevin Abstract Quotes

In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work - and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

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

I have faced up to what I am.

The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.

The price of confessing is to be confronted with the truth of who you are - you have to bear your faults, your frailties.

If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ugly as they may seem to his sentimental vanity -- before he can learn the truth behind the facts. And the truth is never ugly.

I'm not nearly as important as I used to think I was. It's a wonderful discovery.

My personality doesn't interest me.

I think that's the most important thing you can do to be a real person - is to be honest with yourself.

I could do nice, but it's just not as much fun. Being nice isn't my biggest goal in life. I'm trying to be honest about who I am, and that's not always nice. I'm not always the world's cheerleader.

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 don't think I gain anything by seeing myself.

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

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

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.

Honesty lies in understanding our close and necessary relationship with not wanting to hear the truth.

It sounds so cheesy, but there's something very powerful about looking in the mirror and asking yourself a question. Because I think it's really hard to lie.

You are.

I am excited to show people how, when you get older, you get deeper, you get more raw, you get more honest, and you stop pretending to be the person you think people want you to be. I stopped worrying about what people wanted me to say and just sort of dug deep into my personal arsenal of my mistakes and shameful thoughts.

I can deal with imperfection, but I can't deal with people who lie to themselves and lie to the world to make the world feel better.

If I want to hide myself from my limitations, then I don't want to play this game.

I'm trying to know who I am and be honest about it.