Terrence Howard Quotes

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.

I do not think I reinvent myself. Wearing my hair differently or changing my style of dress is playing dress-up. I don't take it too seriously.

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.

I have done a lot of work internally to find out who I am, what voice Eamonn Walker has and how he wants to put it out there.

Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me.

I'm always thinking about what my identity is.

I'm not what I make.

I'm not really interested in myself in my writing. I can't see myself in the songs, even though I know different parts of me are there.

As a consumer of entertainment, as a director, I'm always interested in questions of identity and who someone is and how they're perceived and who they are versus who they thought they'd be.

The portrait I do best is of the person I know best.

We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of 'how do we find our authentic selves?' And that we all - whether we're actors or not - perform ourselves. As a way of searching. As a way of fumbling around and trying to say, is this my voice? Is this who I am?

Acting should be an end in itself.

On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.

If you write something that's personal, there's going to be elements of yourself in it.

Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.

If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.

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

If a woman decides she likes me, it would behoove her to take into consideration that my art has had a strong influence on the type of person I am.

Writing is my salvation. If I didn't write, what would I do?

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

In my own defense, I wrote a one-man show, and that to me was more where I fit.

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

You'll always end up filling out a character. It might be with aspects of yourself.