Anais Nin Quotes

I always think it's interesting to dig a little bit deeper every time you go to someplace that seems like a revelation or a strong connection to an emotional truth.

It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately.

People will always show their true selves in the end.

I'm always exploring other people: trying to figure out myself, trying to figure out everyone.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

Well, I think that in every character there are little bits and pieces of yourself.

Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through.

The feeling of being at sea has put me in touch with who I am to a greater degree than if I had been on land all these years. So, in a roundabout way, I imagine it does inform my acting.

Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.

The camera looks into your soul.

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

I suppose one of the things that interest me about acting is unpicking what makes people tick and why they do what they do and what it means to be human.

Some day... some day, I want to go much deeper into the human mind.

You do not separate the human being from the actions he does or the actions which surround him, but you see what it is like to break these actions up in different ways, to allow passion - and it is passion - to appear for each person in his own way.

We're constantly, as human beings, trying to understand why we do what we do and how we got to wherever we find ourselves today. Sometimes it takes a lot of time to look back and go, 'I can't believe I spent one day with that person, much less two years.'

I learned so much about life and other human beings - then about myself.

No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves.

Any conversation which does not include the context of the journey of the heart is by definition untrue to who we are as human beings.

I have this belief that we are so vulnerable when we open ourselves up to literature. We're reminded of these real parts of ourselves.

You can tell everything from the eyes.

When you're writing, I think a big part of writing comes out of an attempt to understand yourself. You're dealing with emotions and thoughts that are native to you. So that probably winds up in your characters.

When I listen to love, I am listening to my true nature. When I express love, I am expressing my true nature

If we consider what happens in conversation, in reveries, in remorse, in times of passion, in surprises, in the instructions of dreams, wherein often we see ourselves in masquerade,--the droll disguises only magnifying and enhancing a real element, and forcing it on our distinct notice,--we shall catch many hints that will broaden and lighten into knowledge of the secret of nature.

It is when our hearts are stirred that we become most aware of what they contain.