Carl Rogers Quotes

If you want to know me, look inside your heart.

Without being and remaining oneself, there is no love.

I feel like you can't really be truthful as an artist and empathize with the human experience, unless you know your truth and you're not living a lie. So I'm learning through it, and it's making me a better person, and it's making me a better artist, I think.

The portrait I do best is of the person I know best.

I'm not interested in nostalgia; I'm interested in who I am.

You write who you are somehow. Even if you try to not to. You can't help but write who you are. I'm just not a very cynical person. I believe in the humanity of people, whether it is just the guys in 'The Full Monty' or Aron Ralston.

If you're really being honest with yourself when you're acting, part of it is touching the real you. You can only separate yourself so much from the character. Those vulnerable moments do touch me.

I have to live in the truth that this is who I am. That's what I need to focus on.

I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people.

We get so swept up in sort of what the media tells us to care about and all these other influences that we really have to dig down deep and figure out what is it that we as human beings really care about and want for ourselves. When you figure that out, you see who you really are.

My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in.

Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.

If I had to associate myself with one song, it would probably be Let Love Rule. It's so simple and to the point. It speaks for itself.

I just want to portray a very honest character that displays traits that people can truly relate to and can help them - the audience and myself because I learn from the characters as well - help them see themselves in a perspective that is outside of what they know already, and grow from that experience.

So few humans seem to fully exist themselves that I wonder if all this endless speculation and haggling about God is really an exploration of a more interesting and embarrassing question about ourselves.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

The mystery at the center of 'Burial Rites' is not who killed whom on the night of March 13, 1828. It is the mystery each of us encounters: Can we every truly know another? Can we ever truly know ourselves?

I don't make fun of people. I call people by what they want to be called. What does your best friend call you? What does your spouse call you? It helps you emotionally connect to people.

I just want to be able to show my personality and let people get to know me.

I'm not what I make.

I just like showing people - and this might be at the root of everything that I've done - that I don't want to be looked at as a baseball robot.

I'm not really interested in myself in my writing. I can't see myself in the songs, even though I know different parts of me are there.

When it comes to a specific sound, I don't feel like there's something I need to worry about. I'd much rather do something creative and credible. Like, 'Who am I? What am I trying to say? What do I stand for?' I stand for all of it, because I feel all of it, like everybody.