Johnny Vegas Quotes

In my book, I was trying to get into my own soul.

I think a lot of Magnum was me.

For a memoir to really succeed, the author has to do such hard work before they come to the page. They have to do a brutal self-examination of everything they believe to be true.

I think that when I got to a certain age, it was important to me to sort of analyze my relationship with myself and my past.

We can't see ourselves very clearly. This I learned as a songwriter. I'm forever trying to figure out what my own truth is.

I always find out after the fact that the books I've been writing were actually some sort of therapy, some sort of, you know, self-examination that I had to write the book in order to complete.

I have never dissected my personal life. What sense would it make?

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

To travel is to take a journey into yourself.

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.

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.'

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

Well, I think that in every character there are little bits and pieces of yourself.

Walk slowly; all you can ever come to is yourself.

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.

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

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.

The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside of you.

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.

I'm trying to figure myself out through my movies. Whether it's big stuff like what we're doing here, or little stuff like, 'Why aren't I happier?' With every film I feel like I'm apologising for something. I feel I'm most successful when I'm looking for something that embarrasses me about my character that I'd like to expose.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.