Bruce Springsteen Quotes

It's a weird dynamic - I guess there is a fine line between hope and sadness. Sometimes you can be feeling both at the same time.

He thought as a sage, though he felt like a man.

I think there's an interesting contradiction of having a young face and an old soul. There's something funny about it, and it also allows you to reinvent being old.

I am a deeply superficial person.

I think I have a degree of confidence, but I also have terrible insecurity, like anybody does.

I always call myself either an optimistic pessimist or a pessimistic optimist - I'm not sure which way it goes.

Many people think I am an idiot. I think I am a genius.

Maybe if I act well enough, I'll come to believe it myself.

To be an actor, a lot of times it's a strange combination of high confidence and low self-esteem. Which is a weird combination to have, but I think it's sort of very common among actors.

I'm pretty confident and, at the same time, I'm pretty insecure. I'm like a walking conflict.

I don't like myself, I'm crazy about myself.

One is least sure of one's self, sometimes, when one is most positive.

When I get honest, I admit I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I hope and get discouraged, I love and I hate, I feel bad about feeling good, I feel guilty about not feeling guilty. I am trusting and suspicious. I am honest and I still play games. Aristotle said I am a rational animal; I say I am an angel with an incredible capacity for beer.

But I refuse to believe that I am a better actor than myself.

I'm a Gemini, so I'm very dual. I love something and I hate it at the same time, so that probably comes out in the lyrics.

Man is not what he believes himself to be in his conscious decisions.

How is it possible to hold such anger against something you don't believe in?

And from the first moment that I ever walked on stage in front of a darkened auditorium with a couple of hundred people sitting there, I was never afraid, I was never fearful, I didn't suffer from stage fright, because I felt so safe on that stage. I wasn't Patrick Stewart, I wasn't in the environment that frightened me, I was pretending to be someone else, and I liked the other people I pretended to be. So I felt nothing but security for being on stage. And I think that's what drew me to this strange job of playing make-believe.

Life has a truth to it, and it's complicated - it's love and it's hatred.

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.

We'll see who believes in me now. I am the Prankster God - I am killing me!

Life may more than once call upon you to prove Who You Are by demonstrating an aspect of Who You Are Not.

Because you aren't who you think you are. You aren't what everyone else believes. You might have delivered countless deaths but you love more fiercely than anyone I've ever known.

But what are you going to do about the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?