Eavan Boland Quotes

You remake yourself as you grow and as the world changes. Your identity doesn’t get found. It emerges.

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.

I don't really know who I am as an actor: the best thing would be to experiment with it for the next 30 years and never really find out.

I'm kind of still learning my voice and learning my style.

I believe later in life I'm gonna change my name when I start making the right music.

...start thinking of yourself as an artist and your life as a work-in-progress. Works-in-progress are never perfect. But changes can be made...Art evolves. So does life. Art is never stagnant. Neither is life. The beautiful, authentic life you are creating for yourself is your art. It's the highest art.

I've always written poetry but I didn't realise it was a therapy for me until I was maybe 15. That's when my singing started to come together as well because I was listening to so much jazz. What I love I will always embrace.

By the time I hit college, my secret shame was the reason I was an actor was my own words sort of dried up. I stopped writing. I stopped being able to form my own vision. That's actually what my first feature is about - looking back at two different selves.

He didn't maintain my illusion of myself, he gave me an illusion of myself. Before I met him, I never thought of myself as an actress. Boy, he sidetracked me in a great way!

My growth as an artist and a person has been so slow and gradual, it's hard to make a story out of it.

Before college, I was Cyndi, and then I think I went to college and I was like, 'You know what? Now I'm Cynthia.'

I really think I've found me finally in the music. You know, I had put an album out before, 'Embrace Me,' and it's been seven years since that. So I was discovering who I was. And I still am discovering, but I think now I know a little bit more of who I am. So that's what's pushing me.

I don't know what would have happened to me as a writer if I had gone to England and shaped my life out of England. Of course, I will never know, but I think I prefer what did happen.

My identity started developing through the songs I was writing.

With every role that I do, I always see a little bit of me, a little bit of art and life.

Art school can be a wonderful place if you're trying to find your voice and your style and your taste.

I know for myself, and maybe I'm weird or whatever, but the whole thing is about constantly redefining identity.

My view of myself as an artist expanded because of the time I spent at Cal Arts.

I feel so much more aware of who I am today as a woman since I turned 40.

I had no idea I was gonna be a songwriter, because I was too young to know my own evolution. I started playing the violin as a way to express myself because I didn't have a lot of vocabulary when I was 14.

It took me a long time to accept that I was a writer.

As an artist, you keep learning. You draw out different parts of you.

It is said an artist spends their whole life trying to get to the place where their heart was first opened up. 'Rent' was that place for me.

I did get a reputation for being choosy and not very easy to be approached, and none of that is true. It is not that I am not approachable, it is just that I am trying to find myself and establish who I am as an artist.