Millicent Simmonds Quotes

I think part of maturity is knowing who you are.

I learned so much, and I feel I have grown as an actor and as a person.

Out of frustration, I say things. Now, people listen to me so much I can say it under my breath and everybody hears me... I said in the past that I'm a work in progress, and I feel like I'm progressing.

As a kid, I was always very shy growing up - I wasn't very good at articulating my thoughts or my feelings. Now that I'm older, I found acting to do that. So it's been an amazing way to sort of express who I am.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

It's not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.

I'm shy, and I can hide behind my acting and discover the truth about myself because it's cathartic in that way. But I tend not to read reviews.

Dating and getting attention from boys was something that came later to me.

For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting.

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 never knew what I wanted to do, but I knew the kind of woman I wanted to be.

Young kids don't have their identity, so everything is so important. Now I'm mature. I know who I am and I know what my thing is and I know what I'm bringing. It's very clear and defined.

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

I've been trying to grow up some myself, in my heart, and it's happening quick and I feel good about it, and I want that to come out in the music.

Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay.

I'm okay with myself. I had times when I was 15 about 'Who I am?' and 'What am I?' and where I want to go, and that's behind me.

When I was younger, I thought I was too young to really be personal. I thought that what I was feeling and thinking might be half-baked.

I have a more developed sense of my priorities. Life has so much more meaning now.

The advantage of age is that you swap youth for wisdom. You're so full of insecurities when you're young. 'Who am I? What do I have to do for people to like me?' You get caught up in things. You get very emotional about things.

If you have a sense of your place in the world, that's the best preparation for anything.

That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.

My music is 100-percent me, so it's just who I developed into as a woman. I feel really grateful that I waited until I did because I feel like I really found who I was by doing that.

I used to be really insular, really introverted. I couldn't articulate myself.

I don't want to just tell my story - I want to share the experiences, life lessons, and values that have shaped who I am and my ideas for the future.

I feel proud to be a skater: it's taught me how to be emotional, more connected with myself, more mature, more understanding of my thoughts and the conversations I've had with myself.