Ninja Quotes

I am not an insecure person. For me, insecurity comes when something I do does not come across the way I thought it would. It would come if I had nothing more to say as an actor. I have a long way to go!

Well I think in all the thirty years I've been doing this now and being gone from home and all that stuff it's really, it's not about what I've achieved and if I've become a better player, or played better ten years ago than I do today.

This profession has fed me creatively and allowed me to have a home life and a private life.

I wonder, 'Why did I do that line that way?' And I also constantly think I'm fat and hate my teeth. But I've gotten better over the years. I've started to accept.

I find myself going out on the road to get my confidence back, because I lose it at home.

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

I'm sure once my career's over, when I look back when I'm older, I can maybe appreciate it a little bit more.

I have been working for over 30 years and am always wondering about where I am and where I am going. It does not stop and become a fixed event of achievement.

It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or worn in the past.

I was very insecure at the beginning of my career. I didn't value my talent. I would have probably skipped signing up for movies that I didn't want to do if I had understood that I had been accepted and people liked my work.

I can no more reread my own books than I can watch old home movies or look at snapshots of myself as a child. I wind up sitting on the floor, paralyzed by grief and nostalgia.

I look back at my twenties and see that I was much less confident.

I still feel like when I walk on the set, I'm starting from scratch, until I realize, 'OK, I do know what I'm doing. I'm human.'

I'm an actor, so I'm never going to feel like I've done enough.

I feel this emptiness in me, like I still got something to prove and I still got so much stuff to work on in my game.

Actors, by nature, are insecure. I don't see that as necessarily a bad thing. It is good to question yourself, be self-analytical. You get a better performance if you challenge yourself. If you go around thinking you're great, you're never going to challenge or scare yourself.

I had a very strong 'revertigo' for becoming the kid that I was when I was in Dinosaur Jr. That's a pretty insecure place that I was in.

I have a lot of growing up to do. But I think, 'Hell, is it too late?'

Doubt, not self-reflection, comes from a destructive energy, and when it rears its head, I talk to it like a lunatic.

I think that there's part of me that feels like maybe I should have been more social.

I don't like going back and listening to myself. It makes me uncomfortable, and I know I can never emulate what I did that night, so why listen to it?

If I were somebody else looking at my character, I'd be like, "She's beautiful." I'm practicing. I'm not succeeding.

The second you stop questioning yourself is the second that you become the monster. -Merry

I realize that I am not a journalist. So anything I say is not important.

I wandered through the streets thinking of all the things I might have said and might have done had I been other than I was.