Zora Neale Hurston Quotes

I went to an ordinary school in New York City with no other actors. I learned to compartmentalise different parts of my life. I was one person at home and then another person at work and for that reason my career didn't challenge my family life.

I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage.

In time, you won’t need it to do that. You’ll be able to access that part of yourself anytime you need to. But for now, you’ll require a tool to help you channel all that teenage hormonal ADD that’s bouncing around and through you.” – Death

I know what to keep to myself. I know what I want to give up.

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.

I really explored self-awareness and emotions through 'Green Lantern.' It might sound goofy, but I do believe that emotions have power. We're all driven by something, and most of that is emotional reaction. For me, it was about recognizing my self-awareness.

I feel like I've started to grow up and be more of a woman instead of this crazy girl.

I'll never be known for my work with boundaries.

I might be in an airport, late or angry with a ticket person, and I'm going to sort of check myself, because part of me is seen as Eric Camden. We all need as much help as we can get. It's a role model to me as much as to anybody else.

I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.

I needed to get to know myself, discover where my limits were, not constantly push myself too much.

I think one big thing for me that I need to work on is being able to separate my feelings and emotions from my matches.

Learn to breathe, learn to speak, but first... learn to feel.

I think over time you learn to know a bit more about yourself - you develop a certain amount of self-insight and self-awareness, and you know what you can absorb, and what you cannot; what gets to you and what doesn't.

Hand over your responses to the man who triggers them, and you have already lost the battle for self. Look beyond, and find yourself there instead.

Over time you learn to know a bit more about yourself - you develop a certain amount of self-insight and self-awareness, and you know what you can absorb, and what you cannot; what gets to you and what doesn't. And I observe a lot. I see a lot around me. And over time you also get to understand the nature of man and the environments you are dealing with, and you can't always allow emotions and temper to flare up because you're displeased with something, or you want to change it.

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

It was easier to know a character's point of view than it was to figure out what your point of view was.

We do not escape our boundaries or our innermost being. We do not change. It is true we may be transformed, but we always walk within our boundaries, within the marked-off circle.

There is no such thing as failure. Mistakes happen in your life to bring into focus more clearly who you really are.

The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.

Examine from time to time what are the dominant passions of your soul, and having ascertained this, mold your life, so that in thought, word, and deed you may as far as possible counteract them.

Each of us needs to eliminate our anger, fear and greed. The roots of social conflicts and political tensions are in personal anger, fear and greed.

I know my boundaries. I know the limits to the car.