Jordan Gavaris Quotes

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it.

I think if a character appeals to you, there are certain parts of yourself will come to the fore and other parts that will play down.

Art, in the first place, has to connect with yourself.

I love diving into different skins, skins that make me feel deep emotions.

You can listen to 'Cosmic' and truly get to know me, which I think is special.

I feel like my music at least allows me to release the other side of me, a more vulnerable and sensitive side.

My work is a self-portrait of my mind, a prism of my convictions.

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It's a way of life for me.

I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.

Acting's not therapy, but it can be therapeutic.

I've always been fascinated with knowing the self. This fascination led me to submerge myself in art, study neuroscience, and later to become a psychotherapist.

We're constantly morphing into different outward manifestations of ourselves. That's what I find curious about people.

What you are is a question only you can answer.

When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances.

In my book, I was trying to get into my own soul.

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.

Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about.

A lot of people hurl themselves into relationships to lose themselves, but I think the best relationships help us to be more ourselves, to bring forth our best selves.

Every role you play is literally - and I've said this before - every single role that you play, the only way you can connect to that character is because that was a piece of you that was scattered around that yard, almost like we got caught up in some whirlwind.

I'm not a super emotional person, so that's one reason I love acting - it makes me deal with myself in that kind of way.

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.

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