Oscar Wilde Quotes

It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

I always imagined that magically, at some point, I would settle into this very easy and refined sophistication, but it turns out that who you are at eleven is pretty much who you are at 27, so I don't know how much I've learned over the years.

'South Pacific' - I really learned a lot. I swear I like to say that during 'South Pacific,' I went from being a girl to being a woman.

The older you get the more you understand what you're doing.

I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.

What teens will realize is always a mystery to me. I'm still realizing so many things myself, very belatedly, that it seems unwise to think I have any right to be showing people things in hopes that they'll realize them.

I come out of real life.

When you're 22 or 23, you think the world revolves around you, and I felt that way for a long time. But I just turned 30, and I love it! You realize, 'Whoa, baby, you ain't all that.' And you're not! You're just a woman out there doing something she loves.

I think I was going through a lot of change at 27, but I didn't know it was happening until it was over.

Day to day and doing the work and getting to that honest point - that, for me, is always about - and always will be as long as I do this - refining and refining and refining and refining the truth... constantly being as truthful and honest and raw and real as you can be.

I was such an idiot until the age of 28.

When you're younger, you want to project an image of yourself through your work, but now, I just want to make something honest.

My life is real.

One of the blessings of maturity is that it sometimes brings one greater courage to be truthful, regardless of what those who do not understand may think or say

I guess the very first thing is to own your true self, and that includes achieving the point of not lying to others; the first step should be not lying to yourself.

I learned that it's super important to stay true to yourself and your family. I've also learned that I've got a lot to learn about life, but that's just part of growing up.

There's truths you have to grow into.

I think it's more important to seek the truth than to try and be perfect, to be honest.

As you get older your willingness to tell more of the truth is awakened and you don't have to think about it or imagine it because now you know this to be true.

If I had not lived the life I had lived and did not have the wife I have and the children I have, I would never know how to play that role [of Dr. Bedsloe], and I wouldn't have any of those qualities. It's a real example of how it is true that the camera catches everything. Even the stuff you're trying to hide.