Self-Rediscovery Quotes

You can't shut down. You can't say, 'What can I do to make this go away?' You have to let it be painful and get through it. Every day gets better. Because when you're in love, you kind of give everything and make that person your life. So every day, you get more and more of yourself back, and it feels better.

Each day is an occasion to reinvent ourselves

Wherever I went, I became a son-in-law. It was a terrible phase for me. I had to work double hard to get back my identity. Whenever I gave an interview, the first question would invariably be, 'What is it like to be his son-in-law?' Now that question comes somewhere in the middle of the interview. Hopefully, soon, it won't be asked at all.

I feel like the movie is reminding people of who they are, which is what I think all great art does.

To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it's a good, earned feeling now.

The individual who has become a stranger to himself has lost the capacity for genuine self-renewal.

The second that MercyMe stopped being my identity, instead of quitting, I started falling back in love with it.

As I grew older, I worked less as an actor and as a model, and I went back to what I had tried to do when I was young but wasn't really available. I'm so glad now to be in my sixties and to be able to go back to school.

I didn't go to America to be a star, but to try to reclaim my life.

The most difficult part of playing Christ was that I had to keep up the image around the clock. As soon as the picture finished, I returned home to Sweden and tried to find my old self. It took six months to get back to normal.

We live in an era of reinvention: Madonna and everybody desperately trying to change their persona.

In some ways, you're always redefining your craft and figuring it out, but in some ways, I almost feel I'm going back to what I was doing 20 years ago.

I am writing more than I have ever done. My life has come back to me in the most extraordinary way.

We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.

I think there's an initial shedding of the skin of a character when you've played them for so long, almost like a snake losing its skin. But when a job is done, I kind of walk away from it because I know that I need to prep for whatever else I'm going onto - I need to get back to being myself, which... Who knows exactly who that is, with all the talking voices in my head. You know, back to being a bit of a blank slate again. It becomes a necessity as an actor - at least for the way that I act.