Ivan Turgenev Quotes

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

I find myself fascinating.

Much of the time, we're transfixed by all of the ways we can reflect ourselves into the world. And we can barely find the time to reflect deeply back in on our own selves.

The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.

What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

I sometimes find that in interviews you learn more about yourself than the person learned about you.

I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.

I am an actor and this is holding the mirror up to nature, as it were.

It's nice to take the gloves off, to really examine your character's desires and goals.

I think it's healthy to gain a perspective on who you are deep down, question yourself, and challenge yourself; it's important to do that.

I think you're always trying to figure yourself out and mistakes that you've made.

I hope that when you see my work, you are looking at yourself looking.

Anytime you're sitting there writing a book about yourself, it's a pretty self-fulfilling prophecy, I guess.

Spend time in your head and figure yourself out. Start taking note of all the things you do that you don't like, and then you're more conscious of it, and you learn.

Sometimes you watch yourself, and you think, 'Oh, wow.'

The bigger confrontation is the one an individual has with itself.

The searching for our selves is the most agonizing, isn't it? - and yet the most stimulating - and one simply cannot escape it.

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

Half my life is an act of revision.

I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.

I'm not going to lie, there are more interesting ways to spend your time than answering questions about yourself. But if there were no questions to ask me, I might have a beef with that.

You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.