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 achieve greatness, 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

“If you can release yourself from your demons, you can begin to shed the chains that those demons bring with them.”
Tobin Bell - John Kramer

“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

“So much time to question oneself is... not good.”

Brad Pitt - Heinrich Harrer

“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

“You measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you.”
Morgan Freeman - Carter

“Are we limp and hard to manage?”

Jeff Goldblum - Mac

“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

“If every time you make a mistake you just rush in to fix it, you’re only gonna make things worse.”
Grant Gustin - Barry Allen

“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