Personal Baggage Quotes

We all come to the [Supreme] Court with our bags fully packed. What we take out of them may not have been used before, but they were there.

We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there with us the cultural impedimenta of our social class, our parents' lives, our bank balances, our sexual and emotional expectations, our whole biographies-all the bits and pieces of our unique existences.

Everybody has this sack they're carrying. Some are heavier. Some are lighter. But no one doesn't have it. And if you think someone doesn't have it, they have a bigger one than you imagine.

Marriage doesn't create problems. It reveals them. You bring unresolved stuff into it.

Looks to me like you've been making garbage for a while and dragging it with you. Now you need to get out of here, and that garbage is weighing you down.

Everyone has an uncomfortable club in their bag.

I still go to a party and say something embarrassing to someone, and then write them a weird e-mail about it the next day, and then write them a text because I think they didn't get the e-mail. No matter what happens with your level of success, you still have to deal with all the baggage that is yourself.

No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.

I try to leave my work at work, and check my work-baggage at the door before I go outside of here. I'm not a super method actor, and I think that all the answers are inside the script.

I have far too many skeletons in my closet to think about any sort of serious mention of public office.

There'll always be that prep in me that I can't seem to get rid of.

In many ways I wish I wasn't an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could just devote my energies to encouraging people to find their true selves.

Unless you're very boring, I think most people who've lived long enough have something in their past which will never go away.

There has to be a reason of whether you look right or you bring the emotional or intellectual baggage of what's required for the storytelling. For me, it's not something I've aspired to say, "I'm going to be working in Hollywood."

You carry your country with you, it's part of your baggage.

I am not a fan of Mitt Romney, but I admit that he is, politically speaking, a good candidate for president. He has no personal baggage. He's as handsome as they come. And he's a talented orator.

I don't think I'll ever get away from my reputation.

We're all travelling heavy with illusions.

I've got a lot of ham in me.

I had a hard-scrabble childhood with my parents. I have a lot of baggage. To come down to the footlights and accept the audience's affection inside a Broadway theater - that didn't come easily to me.

All I meant was that people take their same old lives wherever they go. No place is perfect enough to strip you of that. And some places have a way of magnifying your demons, or of, I don't know, giving them pep pills.

I'm ready to deal with somebody else's baggage. I'm sick of mine.

Patricia embraces me on the station platform. 'The past is what you leave behind in life, Ruby,' she says with the smile of a reincarnated lama. 'Nonsense, Patricia,' I tell her as I climb on board my train. 'The past's what you take with you.

Run for office? No. I've slept with too many women, I've done too many drugs, and I've been to too many parties.

I think the hill one has to trudge in order to understand a man's baggage is more of a trek than I'd like to take right now.