Anne-Marie Duff Quotes

I'm a different athlete, I'm a different person.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

My life is an open pamphlet.

I have definitely had a big impactful change since 2010, and it's rough to look in the mirror, but it's such an important thing to do that.

Motherhood has changed me completely; you are not in control of yourself.

It's more important to know your weaknesses than your strengths.

Really, I was such a late bloomer, I really didn't learn how to be me until I was in my late '40s, which is when I started playing roles that were closer to me.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

I believe that I have such a vanilla life. But maybe I come with a different perspective. I'm always trying to improve myself.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

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.

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.

Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.

I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

The two records are very different. I guess, on the second record, that's more where I was at. Its not that I'm more well-adjusted or anything, it's just that what I wanted to sing about maybe was more the way I wanted to feel.

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn't. In fact, I didn't even know you were supposed to have one.

Being a parent has taught me a lot of things already, you know, though it's only been a year and half, and has made me address parts of myself that I would otherwise live in comfortable denial of, or you know and - you know, for instance, my self-loathing.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.

I don't think I've ever been moulded but I think I am always learning.

I think the more important task for a young person than developing a personal brand is figuring out what she's great at, what she loves to do, and how she can use that to leave an imprint in the world. Those are tough questions, but essential ones. Answer those - and the personal brand follows.

I began working quite young, writing, growing, maturing, always striving to top myself - to make people laugh hard at things they know and believe deep in their hearts to be true.

The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.

Am I now supposed to go on Oprah and cry and tell you my deepest, darkest secrets because you want to know?