Angelina Jolie Quotes

Sometimes it's good to remember who you are outside of work.

Maintain a good balance. A personal life adds dimensions to your professional life and vice versa. It helps nurture creativity through a deeper understanding of yourself.

Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art.

I have a lot of fun writing for artists, but I'm learning to apply that fun to myself.

I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.

I couldn't be 'Johnny' in front of a camera in acting jobs and behind the camera I like to be 'Michael.' With directing, you can't do it by halves. There's a lot of reflection, and I have found that I, as 'Michael,' thrive on it. It's lovely coming home and feeling that stuff from a day's work as myself.

I want to explore more sides of humanity and myself. That's what acting is about.

I'm not out trying to prove anything. I'm sort of finished with that, so I get to play in other sandboxes and try and figure out what I like and I'm interested in.

You have to look yourself in the eye and ask, 'Who are you?' It can't be all about work.

Don't define yourself by your mistakes or by the single thing you are at your work.

Our busy lives force us to focus on things we do from day to day. But the development of character comes only as we focus on who we really are.

Life consists in learning to live on one's own, spontaneous, freewheeling: to do this one must recognize what is one's own-be familiar and at home with oneself. This means basically learning who one is, and learning what one has to offer to the contemporary world, and then learning how to make that offering valid.

I got my high school diploma and a degree from the University of California. But most important, I got myself together and found out who I was and how I could proceed without destroying myself.

I spent a lot of my teenage years experimenting with who I was as a person and not really getting it right. And then, I think, I realized that I just had to chill out in life.

I love getting to be someone else, to explore the parts of myself and other people that we may keep locked away or have no idea exist within us. I also love starting new projects because I always walk away with such a wonderful new group of friends.

I enjoy exploring and finding myself.

I think I've grown over the years and learned about who I am and what I can do and what I can't do.

I just want to figure out me and grow within myself.

I think the teenage sides of myself have informed my adult self.

It's lovely to escape myself and play someone who actually inspires me and gives me strength.

I'm just constantly figuring out new ways to reinvent myself.

It's crazy what can happen in a decade and how much you can grow as a person and as a woman and truly find your voice.

When I started wrestling and then turned into the Evil Queen, I created this character who I needed in my personal life. This woman who is strong, intelligent, confident, empowering. That's what I needed in my personal life.

So many things come with your maturation process. I changed throughout my time with WWE from a kid in his 20s into a man.

I'm finding myself. I'm finding things I'm good at, things I need to work at.