James Ivory Quotes

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

Other actors are not my concern, and that's their life and that's their journey. Everybody has to get to a point in their own time and their own way.

It seems to me that whatever path you choose to take, in the end its up to each of us to try, test and live what we find out, to apply it and see what actually works, and that's the exciting and challenging part of this very real adventure.

A traveller must buy his own experience, and success or failure depends mainly on personal idiosyncrasies.

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

My life and career is my own adventure.

I always try to put myself in the way of surprise as much as possible. My ambition is to keep challenging myself. I like that journey of discovery.

I think I just took a while to know myself. I went on a journey to find out. I was a bit wild.

I think of my life as a journey, and I'm still on it.

Who do you want to be: the radical man who can make a choice in one second, or the man who never takes decisions? That's the question: who's the best? Actually, there is no best.

Everybody has their own path. I got mine.

I enjoy exploring and finding myself.

You just have to make sure you keep living your life, challenging yourself, putting yourself in unusual experiences, thinking about what you're interested in doing, and going there.

In my limited experience, you have to make your own decisions in life and experience things for yourself.

I never knew modelling was what I wanted to do. I was just meandering through life having fun, having a laugh with my friends.

To travel is to take a journey into yourself.

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.

For me, my life is a journey.

Learning what you don't want to do is pretty valuable, it may be as valuable as figuring out what it is you do want to do.

I usually feel like the role comes to you to sort of illuminate some piece of where you are in your life. I feel like I myself am a single woman and I'm childless - by choice - at this point, and I don't know what will happen.

I've always been interested in how fast-moving our identity is and that I've never been able to pin down who I truly am. That inspires me to write, because I feel like that cements me a bit, in that I find my identity in being an artist.

On some level, we as human beings can be who we want to be.

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.