Walter Anderson Quotes

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.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.

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

The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

You've got to be who you are. You've got to be honest with people. If your views change on something, you've got to be willing to express it.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

I've learned that the perfect picture that I hold in my mind of what my life looks like is constantly changing, growing, evolving. I remind myself that I am exactly where I need to be in my life; otherwise, I would surely be somewhere else.

When characters change on screen, it makes you feel better about yourself. You think, 'Oh I change too, I'm constantly becoming a better person.'

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.

I'm learning all the time. I'm evolving all the time as a human being. I'm getting better, I hope, in all of the important ways.

Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if we're not willing to be honest with ourselves about what we feel, we don't evolve.

I want to stop transforming and just start being.

I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.

If we can't look at the good, bad and ugly of who we are, we are never going to progress as people - ever.

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

If you want to end your isolation, you must be honest about what you want at a core level and decide to go after it.

One day I actually took the list into the bathroom and I put it up against my face and looked in the mirror and I realized I had one of two choices, change the list or change myself.

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.

I have faced up to what I am.

It takes time to be who you really want to be. It doesn't happen overnight.

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