Leonard Cohen Quotes

Anybody who does not evolve can become a self-parody. I have to evolve on a daily basis just to keep my own interest in what I do.

If you're not learning as a human, growing as a human, you can't grow as an actor. You're just churning things you've already thought.

People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.

I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.

I will never stop questioning. I will never stop wanting more and discovering other things and wanting to do other things. That will always be a part of me, and it's something I've come to terms with.

I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.

I don't think I've ever been moulded but I think I am always learning.

To work on great material, what you really end up working on is yourself, your own humanity.

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

I have done a lot of work internally to find out who I am, what voice Eamonn Walker has and how he wants to put it out there.

The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience.

If you don't feel you're reaching something new, then don't do it.

I am constantly evolving. The moment I stop my evolution is the moment I disservice myself and, ultimately, those I love.

It just seemed hedonistic when I first started acting. It was a pleasurable thing. But as I look back on it now, I understand that it was a journey of the self for me.

I just surprise myself every day.

When you can surprise yourself, you're truly acting.

The feeling of self-discovery, for me, is perennial.

You're always trying to get better. You're always tinkering. You're always learning new things.

The creative process has been a little bit of an experience, really - to try and make that work for me. The only way I know how to do that is just to remain genuine, humble, and true to everything I know already in my life.

I am never going to stop evolving and growing.

I'm somebody who constantly wants to challenge himself, evolve, and grow. Because if you don't, you fade. You become stagnant.

I like to dissociate myself from the person I was even three hours ago. It's a natural requirement to be a writer.

I think the thing about keeping your character fresh is, when you change as an individual, you have to flow with it.

When I was a kid and writing more acoustic songs, I was doing it more for the attention than for the love of the music. I knew I needed to change something because I wasn't having fun and wasn't liking the songs I was writing.

If we're really committed to growth, we never stop discovering new dimensions of self and self-expression .