Quotes About Self-awareness

I am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.

Also I just think I've been lucky enough to have great parents, and I've had good people around me who have always been honest with me, who would give me a purely metaphorical slap if I ever got too big for my boots.

Beijing was a huge slap in the face, and it forced me to look at myself. I have to realise that this is my life.

I think the whole Flawless thing backfired in my face. I'm just like, 'oh, man! We're out here calling ourselves Flawless, and being the most obnoxious characters, that even I wanted to slap myself sometimes!' Even I would get sick of watching myself on TV!

I'm a guy who has more slapstick than Joe Cool moments in his day, so I'm not taking myself so seriously.

I couldn't sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker.

Even before I knew I was gay, I knew I didn't want to have a child. I knew I didn't want to have one. I never want to have to release it from me. Listen, I love babies. I love children. And I melt when I'm around them. I also love my freedom and I love that I can sleep at night.

I wear my heart on my sleeve, and whatever I was giving, it was just coming from my natural place at that time. And you know, some albums I've made, I look back and think they were great, and then some I look at, and I think that wasn't right at the time.

I can't write about my greatest mistakes because I've slept with most of them.

I don't think that sliding down a wall with a bottle of Sancerre in your hand at 6:30 in the morning is particularly attractive when you're approaching 40 and you've got a kid.

We're all slight hypocrites who fall short of our ideals.

I think everybody carries a slight sense of being different, and I know that it comes very naturally to me.

Reacting to every slight or letdown is neither realistic nor fair; it sends the message that we expect the other person to be flawless in relationship. But no one is perfect, and no one relationship can ever meet all our needs.

I've never thought of my name at the top of the marquee in any particular terms other than, you know, slight bewilderment.

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

For all the success, I never acted any differently. I've always done the same things and I can honestly say I've not changed in the slightest. Sometimes that's the problem.

Hedi was and is still misspelled 'Heidi,' and my perception of genders ended up slightly out of focus from an early age.

I think maybe Mr. Sinise and Mr. Bacon have slightly bigger egos than I do.

I don't like the act of talking; it makes me slightly light-headed.

I just think that, for my particular personality, feeling slightly invisible is always a help.

I was playing a lot of bigger, sort-of-comedic characters in slightly heightened realities, and it had been so fun and fulfilling for a long time. But it got to a point where I just felt like I didn't have that in me anymore.

I think the younger generation's view on race is slightly more evolved. It's a category far down on the list of how they see themselves.

I think I'm ever so slightly behind myself and I don't know what would make me feel in possession of all the facts.

As an athlete, you'd better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.