Joe Pantoliano Quotes

I feel like I really tapped into a pretty honest emotional place for myself as a lyricist. There's a broad spectrum of emotions.

More and more, people probably associate me in this world of comedy and these confident, brassy, big ladies, which I love, but my insides and who I feel like internally and the kind of work that I hope to continue doing feels very different from that.

For me, doing an interview with someone is like having therapy.

Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself. I can throw open to you no picture gallery but your own soul.

In terms of my life, I guess I want to share whatever I've learned really, which is basically one thing: know yourself, look for yourself, know what to look for, cherish it, be honest, be authentic, even if it hurts your feelings. That's not bad.

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

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.

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

There are a lot of films where I play characters that are about the windows to the interior person rather than the exterior.

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.

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

I actually think it's harder to play vulnerability, because you're having to delve deeper into portions of your own psyche, what it is that makes you human.

I think you find universal truth when you get really honest with yourself and you can reach people. If you go deep enough, you have that core feeling, and that feeling can transcend the details of your experience.

Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

At a point in every person's life, one has to look deeply into the mirror of one's soul and decide one's unique truth in the world, not as we may want to see it or hope to see it, but as it is.

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

I'm not afraid to be bluntly honest in my songs, even if it means I'm discovering things about myself that I'd rather not.

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.

I have always been fond of recognizing the spiritual side of someone's personality. It's a very lovely concept.

The best writing really does come from the deepest, most private part of you.

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

I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself.

It's so easy for me to do a boy-bashing pop song, but to sit down and write honestly about something that's really close to me, something I've been through, it's a totally different thing.

I have faced up to what I am.

I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful.