In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.
The great artist Michelangelo claimed that his sculptures were already present in the stone, and all he had to do was carve away everything else. Our understanding of identity is often similar: Beneath the many layers of shoulds and shouldn’ts that cover us, there lies a constant, single, true self that is just waiting to be discovered.
The act of discovering who we are will force us to accept that we can go further than we think.
Everyone is complicated one way or another. But it's interesting to dig into a complicated character, to try to find that within yourself.
I think we're all mysteries to ourselves.
I really just like characters who you don't know where they stand for a long while. It's like people. You hang out with them for 10 years, and then all of a sudden they do something, and you say, 'Who are you?' That's more interesting. In life and on-screen.
In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing that I find is feeling lost and trying to find your way.
It's hard to know who you are until you're cracked open a little bit.
My first care the following morning was, to devise some means of discovering the man in the grey cloak.
Men do not change; they unmask themselves.
Anne Louise Germaine Necker
Halloween is not only about putting on a costume, but it's about finding the imagination and costume within ourselves.
'Solomon Creed' is a man who knows everything about everything but nothing about himself and is on a journey of redemption to try and reclaim his identity.
The ragamuffin who sees his life as a voyage of discovery and runs the risk of failure has a better feel for faithfulness than the timid man who hides behind the law and never finds out who he is at all.