Tom Lenk Quotes

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.

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

As a lonely teenager growing up in Virginia, I fed off any pop culture that could show me different ways of being from what I saw on 'The Cosby Show' reruns or read about in an Ann M. Martin book.

The people who watch you on the court often don't know you as an actual person - a human being.

I don't know what to say about myself. I don't know myself (laughs). People say my humility but I believe we're all humble in our own way. I try to stay close to my family and friends.

All of us, at some moment, have had a vision of our existence as something unique, untransferable and very precious. This revelation almost always takes place during adolescence.

I love my father, but I have worked to develop a separate and distinct identity in different projects I have worked on.

Truthfully, I'm still Corey Hart, Dad, first.

Over and over again, I'm trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself.

Once I wrote 'Atmosphere,' I thought, 'This is my story; it's me and my life and what I've gone through to get to where I am.' I'm not the best singer, but still. All of my albums are personal, but putting myself out there and singing is one more thing that makes me vulnerable - one more thing that people can fire shots at.

There was a period when I had a hard time reconciling all the different parts of me in a way that I thought would make sense to others.

I'm always thinking about identity. And the middle-school years are a time of exploring questions about who you are and who you want to be. For the first time, you see the world in a broader sense.

Naturally, people are curious about how my real mom feels about me having a TV mom.

On some level, we as human beings can be who we want to be.

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

It was good because it helped me get where I'm at today, but then people stereotype and say we don't want to use her because she's known as the 'Wonderbra girl'.

I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.

If you've seen a photo of me from when I was a kid, I don't think anyone would have expected that going in front of the camera was something that I was going to do. I can't believe how little effort my parents put into making me seem like an appealing little girl.

Transcendence constitutes selfhood.

I always imagined that magically, at some point, I would settle into this very easy and refined sophistication, but it turns out that who you are at eleven is pretty much who you are at 27, so I don't know how much I've learned over the years.

I'm very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it's more - I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I was growing up. I really - it was kind of my calling card as a kid.

Everything I've written has been personal and touched on things that I needed to deal with in my personal life. So I just feel that writing is great therapy, and the best writing comes from truth, and so I mine my life constantly for that.

People want to know more about me. They want to know who I am.

Tell me about yourself - your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number.