Jonathan Carroll Quotes

A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.

I wondered to what extent people remained the same as they'd been when very young; if one peeled back the layers of living one would come to the know child.

You'll always end up filling out a character. It might be with aspects of yourself.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

We do not necessarily improve with age: for better or worse we become more like ourselves.

art is exposure. And until you've developed a degree of maturity to handle that knowledge, you are revealing what other people keep hidden.

People who know me, recognize a definite difference in my poise and in my personality, because I've grown.

I think that those of us who are ordinary disappear easily into the backdrop of life and we take things for granted. We often wake up in our lives and wonder how we got there. But the characters I create, the people I am drawn to, are quite extraordinary (and not always in wholesome ways), and they offer us the chance to understand who we really are and how we became who we are.

I like this idea of becoming fully realised.

So I always think it's important to allow someone to reveal themself. If you notice something about someone that you like, it could really tell you something about who they are during a time of trial. The truth will come out.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

I think almost everything in life is life-experience, personality-driven.

I am pleased to say that as I get older, I get less and less like the sitcom 'Miranda.' She is really a clown character, a heightened version of the 20-something me.

I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older, you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me.

It's important for people to figure out their own lives before involving someone else - to gauge where you are and work on your own issues.

Different people bring out different aspects of ones personality.

I always imagined that magically, at some point, I would settle into this very easy and refined sophistication, but it turns out that who you are at eleven is pretty much who you are at 27, so I don't know how much I've learned over the years.

I do feel like the end of 'Mad Men' is a sort of a coming of age.

I think part of maturity is knowing who you are.

I needed the 'Chuck' phase to appreciate the 'Captain Awesome' phase because otherwise I don't think I would have realized the flip side of that coin. I think I needed to see the world through Chuck's eyes before becoming Captain Awesome.

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 .

The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man; for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality.

To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

People become more interesting from about 25 - they develop character and their personalities come out.