Shilpa Shinde Quotes

My journey on 'The Bachelor' was interesting. I definitely grew but had ups and downs.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

I've had the longest mid-life crisis ever.

George Foreman. A miracle. A mystery to myself. Who am I? The mirror says back. The George you was always meant to be. Wasn't always like that. Used to look in the mirror and cried a river.

You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film.

Sometimes you have to confront your demons and sometimes even let them loose to genuinely find a place where you can gain some understanding.

The best thing about golf is ultimately what it teaches you about yourself. And the worst thing is how freakin' nervous it can make you feel.

There was a period when I had a hard time reconciling all the different parts of me in a way that I thought would make sense to others.

Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

I wanted to wash off the experience of Africa but obviously I couldn't because that's who I was.

I think a novel has to be about where you are at a given moment in time. I think it really needs to represent some specific pain you're going through. it's not just a story.

Pippin chooses love and finds a greater sense of himself at the end of all the madness. I relate to him in many ways. I have been through stuff, thought I knew best, and often been proven wrong.

Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself, in fact, confused.

I've never been on one of these shows where you have to make alliances and be a team player.

I would stay in my room for days, for days at times, just trying to get it together, to know what my next phase was going to be.

Well, I believe that life is very complicated. And in a way, the only way you can show life in a truthful way is to show how complicated it is as an individual, but also your relation between a complicated life and the complications you have inside you.

I have become a different person. I don't know whether this person is better, he certainly is not happier.

I was in the middle of a crossroads, which is a nice way of saying crisis, physically, emotionally and spiritually. You know the physical part. We just talked about it.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.

Now on 'Bachelor Pad' it is true colors - no best foot forward anymore, everybody is really themselves.

It's always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.

I've had times in my life when I really haven't been able to figure myself out.

By 30, I was separated from my husband, and I clearly remember sitting in my lovely office with a magnificent view, staring at a very lucrative pay stub, and bursting into tears because I was just miserable. So I had to make a decision: Keep following my plan, or be honest with myself and search for my true passion.

Everybody is always in the middle of their own opera.

The characters that I'm typically drawn to are sensitive men who are experiencing some sense of identity crisis or growth in their life that they don't know how to overcome.