Neneh Cherry Quotes

Soul is just that inner spirit. I use that inner spirit for whatever it is I do.

I think obviously there's a core of who you are, and as you get older, you become more aware of what behavior is immutable. For a long time, I felt there was a deep separation between the person I was as a teenager and the person I was in my 20s and early 30s .

Getting older, getting married, buying a house, becoming a different person... I had to figure out what my new motivations, inspirations, and goals were.

Middle Age At forty-five, What next, what next? At every corner, I meet my Father, My age, still alive.

I've come to believe that whoever I am didn't start on December 14, 1946, and isn't going to end on whatever that mysterious date is in the future.

My joy as a writer is circling around and around and down and down to find out who the real person is.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play.

I got my story, my dream, from America. The hero I had is Forrest Gump... I like that guy. I've been watching that movie about 10 times. Every time I get frustrated, I watch the movie. I watched the movie before I came here again to New York. I watched the movie again telling me that no matter whatever changed, you are you.

When I was younger, my whole sense of self-worth was based on whether or not I was working, which was awful. And I had a baby at 20 years old, so it wasn't just about me. At around the age of 30 there was a stretch where I wasn't working - certainly not on anything I liked, anyway - and I started to do other things.

Life changed at 40 for me, as predicted by my acting teacher when I was leaving college. I became more hirable and more interesting... I'm not sure why.

I think the idea that you know who your inner self is on a daily basis, because... you know. What's good for you 25 years ago may not be good for you now. So, to keep in touch with that, I think that's the first ingredient for success. Because if you're a successful human being, everything else is gravy, I think.

With yourself, I think you have to decide the kind of person that you really want to be, and for me, it's just a sweet girl.

There was a period when I had a hard time reconciling all the different parts of me in a way that I thought would make sense to others.

The movies I've made at a certain time of my life were exactly right for the stage of my life, the frame of mind I was in at the time. Each character I've had to play has been me in that time in my life.

There's a time in your life where you're not quite sure where you are. You think everything's perfect, but it's not perfect... Then one day you wake up and you can't quite picture yourself in the situation you're in. But the secret is, if you can picture yourself doing anything in life, you can do it.

I think when you're put into a completely different situation and environment, you really see who you are. You're not affected by what's around you. You are who you are.

A woman has many faces as she goes through her life. It's like we need more than one hair-do. We have many, many changes in the evolution of our lives. We have, we learn, and we grow; we view life differently, and life views us differently.

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

You grow and you change, or at least you think you do, but you're kind of the same.

The thing that surprises me most is, you cannot change who you are.

I think we have two very important missions in life. One is to find out who we really are and the other one is to taste as much of life and experience as much of life as we can.

I write based on powerful inner impulses, and those seem to shift over time.

On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.