Jurnee Smollett Quotes

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.

The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

I think you're always trying to figure yourself out and mistakes that you've made.

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.

I sometimes find that in interviews you learn more about yourself than the person learned about you.

We have to have a very clear understanding of ourselves.

Spend time in your head and figure yourself out. Start taking note of all the things you do that you don't like, and then you're more conscious of it, and you learn.

Seeing that I am so busily occupied with myself just now, I want to try to paint my self-portrait in writing.

It takes time to understand yourself, to go inside yourself and to question yourself and really take yourself to task. That's self-expression.

How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action.

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.

Much of the time, we're transfixed by all of the ways we can reflect ourselves into the world. And we can barely find the time to reflect deeply back in on our own selves.

I am really puzzled to understand myself.

When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.'

When I go back and read my journals or fiction, I am always surprised. I may not remember having those thoughts, but they still exist and I know they are mine, and it's all part of making sense of who I am.

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

I feel like I've grown up a bit. I'm a bit more confident, and I've been reading more, and I've had a little more time to myself. I went on this writing trip to gather my thoughts about where and who I am in this world, and why we're all here.

I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally.

I think a lot of Magnum was me.

I don't consciously use my own life or experience at all.

Seriously, these days I tend to shut up in terms of external analysis and DO try to let things speak for themselves, while still trying to get some depth into them.

I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.

At the typewriter you find out who you are.