Self-examination quotes

“We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - you can blame anyone but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change, you're the one who has got to change. It's as simple as that, isn't it?”
Katharine Hepburn

“Sometimes to achievegreatness, you do, you have to cut off a little piece of yourself no matter how much it hurts, in order to grow, in order to move on.”
Tom Hardy - Ronald Kray

When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, "I have arrived." Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
Charles Bronson

“- Red: That's what I am. I'm just a hermit crab changin' shells.
- Dale Denton: Except if you're a dick your whole life, your next shell will be made of shit, okay? If you're an asshole, you're gonna come back as a cockroach or a worm or a fuckin' anal bead, okay? If you're a man and you act heroic, you'll come back as an eagle. You'll come back...” (continue)(continue reading)

Danny McBride - Red
Seth Rogen - Dale Denton

“I find that, lately, even lying to myself comes easily.”
Jude Law - Alfie

“It's a procedure. Like rebuilding a carburetor has a procedure. You know, when you rebuild a carburetor, the first thing you do is you take the carburetor off the manifold? Supposing you skip the first step, and while you're replacing one of the jets, you accidentally drop the jet, it goes down the carburetor, rolls along the manifold, and goes...” (continue)(continue reading)
Joe Pesci - Vinny Gambini

“If you don't like something about yourself, change it. If you can't change it, accept it.”
Ted Shackelford

“There's no play here. There's no angle. There's no champagne room. I'm not a miracle worker, I'm a janitor.”

George Clooney - Michael Clayton

“Tend to view our lives as if we're looking through a keyhole. It's a very limited view of the truth. So we have to fill in the blanks. We invent things. You invent enemies to test your strength against. You invent gods to protect you from these enemies. Who is the enemy? One minute you have friends. The next moment, they've slipped away.”
Bruce Willis - Bill Capa

“Want somebody to respect you. But it takes respect to get respect.”
Cedric the Entertainer - Eddie

“It is the worst kind of yellowness to be so scared of yourself that you put blindfolds on rather than deal with yourself. To face ourselves - that's the hard thing. The imagination - that's God's gift, to make the act of self-examination bearable.”
Will Smith - Paul

“I know that people get confused in this life about what they want, and what they've done, and what they think they should've because of it. Everything they think they are or did, takes hold so hard that it won't let them see what they can be.”

Annette Bening - Sue Barlow

- Dr. Berger: Maybe you were stronger. Did it ever occur to you that you might have been stronger? How long are you going to punish yourself? When are you going to quit?
- Conrad "Con" Jarrett: Oh God, I'd like to quit...
Judd Hirsch - Berger
Timothy Hutton - Conrad

“Who cares what these creeps think of you? They don't make you what you are, you do. You are who you choose to be.”
Harry Connick Jr. - Dean McCoppin

“I'm an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.”
James Wilby - Maurice Hall

“Let me tell you a story, John. There was a sculptor. He found this stone, a special stone. He dragged it home and he worked on it for months until he finally finished it. When he was ready he showed it to his friends. They said he had created a great masterpiece, but the sculptor said he hadn't created anything. The statue was always there, he...” (continue)(continue reading)

Richard Crenna - Col. Samuel Trautman

“If we could all just laugh at ourselves, in hard times or good times, it would be an incredible world.”
Jena Malone

“Why me Lord? You made other men out of clay. Mine, you made out of shit.”
John Quade - Cholla

“My true nature, I believe, is writing.”
Richard LaGravenese

“If you spent two years building your dream car, and then you started to notice that it was also the dream car of a certain type of person, like people who are - I don't know, let's just call them rapists out of convenience. If you started to notice that your peers were rapists, what do you think that says about the old you who built this car?”

Kristen Bell - Annie Bean

“Comes a point in life when you realize everything you know about yourself, it's all just conditioning. It's the rare man who truly knows who he is.”
Stephen Root - Eddie Gauthier

“Sometimes your worst self is your best self. You know what I’m saying?”
Vince Vaughn - Frank Semyon

“Being aware of your crap and actually overcoming your crap are two very different things.”
Sandra Oh - Dr. Cristina Yang

“- Wang Chi-Yang: Where have you been till this hour?
- Wang Ta: Spending the night...
- Wang Chi-Yang: Stop! Not in front of your aunt.
- Wang Ta: I beg your forgiveness, Father. You were right. I should have listened. I was a fool.
- Wang Chi-Yang: Knowing you are a fool is the beginning of wisdom. Now I have my son back.”
Benson Fong - Wang Chi-Yang
James Shigeta - Wang Ta

“I stole this watch when I was fourteen. I wanted it so much I could feel it in the pit of my stomach. So one day when I went to pick up some flint for my father's lighter, the owners back was turned, I picked it up and put it in my pocket. The thing was I had the money. Today I still do not know why I could not bare to pay for it.”

Elina Löwensohn - Anne Levels