Joo Won Quotes

One day I actually took the list into the bathroom and I put it up against my face and looked in the mirror and I realized I had one of two choices, change the list or change myself.

A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.

You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.

I used to say things like, 'My name's not Al (Bundy), you know?' Not to the press, but to fans. 'My name is actually Ed.' I'd find myself saying that, and I'd think, 'Who do you think they think you are? They only know you from that!' And finally I just got...I don't know, I guess a switch went on for me, and I realized, 'This was the greatest job that you've ever had in your life. Why are you acting like an asshole?' So from that minute on, I kind of...well, I hate the word 'embraced,' but I just kind of went, 'Yeah, okay.' 'So you're Al, right?' 'Yep!'

If we want to change what people think of us, then we have got to change.

I am still a person with a sense of superficiality that I'm trying to challenge.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

I think people change, but the media, they never allowed me to change. They never allowed me to be a better person.

I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then.

I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.

I guess I don't have a proper perspective on my fame; if I did, I don't think I'd like it.

When I grew up, I studied karate for years. I got pretty strong, but eventually I had to acknowledge that I really didn't like fighting at all, so I quit.

I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent.

I have a lot of growing up to do, or a lot of growing down. I think that's probably more appropriate.

We think we control our environment, but in fact, it's our environment that controls us. We can't change the world. The only thing we can change is ourselves, by trying to get a better understanding of our own messed-up wiring.

You're looking at a different me than I'm looking at.

Why am I the way I am? Well, I used to be different.

It's true I'm more widely recognised now and get invited to take part in all sorts of events and projects but as a person, I haven't changed.

I got a lot of paradoxes in my life. I guess I'm a real confused person, but there are some focused parts to my life now, and I'm slowly trying to put all the pieces back together.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

I don't think I'm really open to having Washington change me.

Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.

Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.

My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye.