Richard Russo Quotes

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

a lesson must be lived in order to be learned and the clarity to see and stop this now that is what i've earned

I think over time you learn to know a bit more about yourself - you develop a certain amount of self-insight and self-awareness, and you know what you can absorb, and what you cannot; what gets to you and what doesn't.

People are experience-rich and theory-poor. I help people organize / make sense of their experiences.

It's so funny, you go to acting school thinking you're going to learn how to be other people, but really it taught me how to be myself. Because it's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.

After a long run of almost thirty years, you get to the point where you say, 'These are my concerns.' It's not so much this is what I set out to claim - it is a kind of refrain.

You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.

I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Tennis was always sort of a - a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself. And the things that I sort of discovered at times I not only didn't want to see it for myself but I certainly didn't want millions of people to see it.

I really explored self-awareness and emotions through 'Green Lantern.' It might sound goofy, but I do believe that emotions have power. We're all driven by something, and most of that is emotional reaction. For me, it was about recognizing my self-awareness.

I always write to understand my place in the world. I can see myself and my life unfold on the page, and I can understand my strengths, my weaknesses - I can see where I need to step up a bit.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

When I was a kid I was very interested in the idea of the will, finding out what you're capable of. I liked those kind of challenges.

I've been in therapy. I know enough about myself now to know that I really don't need to know anymore.

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 just want to portray a very honest character that displays traits that people can truly relate to and can help them - the audience and myself because I learn from the characters as well - help them see themselves in a perspective that is outside of what they know already, and grow from that experience.

Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.

A degree of self-awareness is extremely valuable... I hope I have that going forward.

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

I gotta say, I know my strengths, and I know my weaknesses, and, well, Fix-It Felix, I'm not too far from that kid.

Ten years of character development affords you a lot. You get a chance to dig deeper and deeper and deeper into a person.

Emotion is a broad spectrum and I just been to a lot of sides of my own emotions.

There are many things people don't know about me, and maybe when they read about those things, they will have an understanding of the journey I have been on, why I've made the mistakes I have, and hopefully help other people overcome their adversities.

I think I've grown over the years and learned about who I am and what I can do and what I can't do.