Quotes About Self-awareness

May God grant us the grace to laugh at ourselves.

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.

The first is that all effort to negate self only succeeds in affirming it. The second is that self is not a thing but a reference position.

I regret the passing of the studio system," Lucille Ball once said. "I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent. Believe me. What could I do? I couldn't dance. I couldn't sing. I could talk. I could barely walk. I had no flair. I wasn't a beauty, that's for sure.

Nobody wakes up in the morning thinking, 'I'm a bad guy.' They think they're the right guy.

It takes about ten years to get used to how old you are.

I am a cigarette with a body attached to it

The world is much larger than I once dreamed, or perhaps my place in it is smaller than I once realized.

The faults we see in others never seem as dreadful as those we see in ourselves.

You don't have to work at what you are. Part of what you are is what you think you are, but what you think you are is not all of what you are. It is just an aspect of what you are. Being buddha means being unattached to your thoughts about what you are. If you think you are a worthy person or an unworthy person, not grasping those thoughts is buddha.

If we don't understand our tools, then there is a danger we will become the tool of our tools. We think of ourselves as Google's customers, but really we're its products.

Thinking is the soul speaking to itself.

The only object we truly possess is our own mind. The only pleasure over which we have complete dominion is the progress of our own understanding.

When I am on my own, I get nervous and have butterflies.

With '3 Mics', there's nothing I'm talking about that's too hot button.

I didn't happen to be one of those gay kids who knew definitively by the time I was 13.

To me, self-description is a calamity.

Once you start to try and calculate why you were cast and why you weren't, you get in trouble.

You call yourself what you want to call yourself.

Any artist always has misgivings about calling himself an artist.

I've been calling myself 'just an actor' since I was 6 years old. That's a long time.

I think I'm better behind the camera than I am in front.

I play myself all the time, on camera and off. What else can I do?