Kay Kay Menon Quotes

It's nice to take the gloves off, to really examine your character's desires and goals.

Every character is asking: 'What's my place? Why am I here? I don't want the answer to be 'Just because.' You find your own purpose. Each finds the reason to be here and how to contribute.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

I think it's healthy to gain a perspective on who you are deep down, question yourself, and challenge yourself; it's important to do that.

If you're not doing it for the right reasons, then you'd be dumb to be making documentaries.

I think if the desire to improve what I do starts to plateau then what's the point.

Half my life is an act of revision.

Much of the time, we're transfixed by all of the ways we can reflect ourselves into the world. And we can barely find the time to reflect deeply back in on our own selves.

You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.

I think of myself as a catalyst of action and a messenger of hope, turning people onto themselves and turning people onto their dreams.

When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.'

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

I always write to understand my place in the world. I can see myself and my life unfold on the page, and I can understand my strengths, my weaknesses - I can see where I need to step up a bit.

To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is.

I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally.

I think a lot of Magnum was me.

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Writing music on your own makes you think a lot about your life. Who are you? Would you change anything about yourself? This is where it comes from.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

I sometimes find that in interviews you learn more about yourself than the person learned about you.

If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers.

I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.

One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself.