Kristin Kreuk Quotes

As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.

I immerse myself in things that meant something to me while I was growing up.

I think about my journey sometimes.

I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.

My dad would always say, "When you look at a photo do you see yourself last?"

Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself.

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

If I'd trusted myself and listened to myself all the times that I ignored myself, I would have been fine. But everyone has to learn their lesson, and now I've got it.

It's funny looking at yourself. You know how it is when you look back at old pictures? It's just funny looking back at yourself walking and talking at age 14.

That's a part of me going back to what I used to do.

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.

I have a photograph of myself when I was 2 years of age, and I don't recognize the person in the photograph. She doesn't look anything like me, and I can't find any trace of her in me physically. And yet I remember her very, very well - even her anxiety.

I have not had time to reflect on my own truths in many years.

I don't look at my films or my old drawings much, so that was an interesting way to kind of reconnect with myself a bit.

Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.

I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.

There's a part of me that looks beyond everything now.

Maybe one day I can have a reunion with myself.

I'm in a position to look back at my life, and I realized there were a number of experiences that needed to be documented.

I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.

When I look back at the 1980s I pinch myself. Did I really do all that?

I go on the Internet and look at old pictures of myself, because it is the best reminder of how far I have come and where I do not want to be.

I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.

I did keep detailed journals from about fifth grade on, and every so often as I was growing up, I would re-read them and reflect on the previous years of my life.

For the first five years of music and first five years of acting, I don't remember it because I was running to where I was going. Finally I was like, 'Man, I missed everything.' So I just stopped, and I started looking around.