Akshaye Khanna Quotes

So I just took some time off. I was maybe going to do two or three years and it turned into five years. But certainly, I'd say it was the best thing I ever did. And now I come back to this whole thing really energized about it.

I write to discover what I think.

When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.

I don't see it as a form of healing, because if you have wounds that are bleeding I don't think acting will ever get them to stop. But I find acting is a form of illumination.

Sometimes I journal three pages, sometimes I journal thirty pages, but I'm writing all the time, and whatever's happening is happening in real time for me.

In my book, I was trying to get into my own soul.

Sometimes I forget some of the things I've done. I recently recalled that after Watergate I went away by myself to Tahiti for a month, moving from island to island. That was a point in my life where I didn't know what was next.

I had trouble distinguishing art from life. I don't now, and I feel much better!

When I turned 40, subconsciously, life was a blank sheet. Before, it was disjointed, and I was very displaced and quite mad, but it was a brilliant time. Everyone thinks I must have been unhappy.

Songwriting helps me sort out my personal problems. With acting, you're just a tool for someone's ideas.

For me, writing is a parenthesis where I can make sense of life.

I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.

Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.

I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me to go much deeper into my thoughts and memories than conversation does. Writing provides the solitude necessary to reflect on being in this world.

Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.

The music I make and the process of acting, for me, are both about trying to understand people and get inside what makes us tick. That's the main thing that excites me. Our sense of who we really are and what drives us.

I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.

In 2015, I told my band that I was taking a break so I could focus on my home life, go back to school, and try to remember what it was like to feel like a human being again.

Getting a good grasp of your life and what's going on around you is so important.

Every once in a while, I'll have an acting role that allows me to look at something in my life and work it out.

Songwriting has really allowed me to enjoy life and look at it from an objective place.

Writing makes everything else in my life okay; it makes everything make sense.

With work and life, your true depth can become an alien thing to you. Your gut feelings, your instincts become buried.

It's hard to say what you learn acting a part. You find bits and pieces of yourself that are inside the character you play. You locate the relatable aspects of that character to your own life. So, in a way, every part you play forces you to discover things about yourself you might not have learned otherwise.