Judd Apatow Quotes

I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are as individuals in this culture anymore.

We use books like mirrors, gazing into them only to discover ourselves.

Sometimes I need to be a stranger to myself. Only then my soul can show me not what I want, but what I need to see.

I was thirty-seven years old and still discovering who I was.

Through all of youth I was looking for you without knowing what I was looking for

Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am.

This is where you can find your soul if you dare. Where you can touch that part of you that you've never dared look at before. Do not come here and ask me to show you how to draw a face. Ask me to help you find the wind.

Sometimes we can only find ourselves by first losing ourselves.

It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?

I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself.

In order to find yourself, who you really are, you got to be with yourself; you got to hang out with yourself.

I'd be lying to you if I said I had not done some soul searching.

A lot of people go on this journey of finding themselves and then eventually realize that their true self wasn't on the outside but it's always been there.

I think at some point during everyone's life, you finally figure yourself out. I haven't even done that yet. I'm still learning who I am.

I'm reminded of who I am, who I was, and who I'm supposed to be.

I'm in search of myself - have you seen me anywhere?

The moving toward one's inner self is a long pilgrimage for a painter. It offers many temporary successes and high points, but impels him on toward the more adequate image.

There was something special about being in a strange place, all alone in a mass of people even if you had just screwed up your life, or perhaps especially if you had just screwed up your life.

What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.

Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. There is no mystery about why this should be so. Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines, your refrigerator full of your food, your closet full of your clothes -- with all this taken away, you are forced into direct experience. Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience. That's not always comfortable, but it is always invigorating.

The wizard [of Oz] says look inside yourself and find self. God says look inside yourself and find [the Holy Spirit]. The first will get you to Kansas. The latter will get you to heaven. Take your pick.

You have not known what you are - you have slumber'd upon yourself all your life; Your eye-lids have been the same as closed most of the time; What you have done returns already in mockeries; Your thrift, knowledge, prayers, if they do not return in mockeries, what is their return? The mockeries are not you; Underneath them, and within them, I see you lurk.

I know of no other advice than this: Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth.

I'm who I was waiting for. I didn't make it.

I'm also starting to wonder something else. If maybe the point of this crazy quest I'm on wasn't to help me find Willem. Maybe it was to help me find someone else entirely.