Quotes About Self-awareness

I am not an Internet superstar.

I've heard myself referred to as a quiet superstar, and I don't quite know what that means.

I've never seen myself as a star. I never call myself a celebrity or a superstar, whatever.

I never pictured myself as an entertainer or a superstar or a model or anything like that.

At Lyon, there's 20 other superstars there - I'm not the best player there. I'm not the best player at England.

There are superstars around us who have achieved so much in their career. I am not even five percent of that. I have a long way to go.

Superstition's not for me. And I'm not much for medicine either. I know my mind and my body better than anyone else.

I was a supporting character in other people's lives, which seemed right and familiar to me. I was also an outsider: English in the U.S., American in England, dogged yet comforted by that familiar feeling of alien-ness, which occupied that space where my sense of self should have been.

I don't consider myself a very interesting person. I have the mentality of a supporting actor.

I suppose we are what we are, and we use the evidence to confirm what we believe.

I suppose I was a little bit of what would be called today a nerd. I didn't have girlfriends, and really I wasn't a very social boy.

Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.

I suppose I've been selfish in the past and put my career first. But priorities change.

No, I don't suppose I'm so much a collector sort of person.

I suppose I try to dress for women like me, women I would look at and think, 'Ah, she looks cool, she looks nice'. You kind of get to an age when you know what suits you.

I suppose it's a very highly developed form of denial, but some part of me completely denies that I'm a performer.

I never wanted to be a performer. I suppose I was precocious, really.

It's not something that defines me. I'm not a half-Indian politician or a doctor politician or a gay politician for that matter... it is part of my character, I suppose.

I'm not as cool as I'm supposed to be.

What, am I supposed to run around in a little red cape and save the world?

The cardinal rule for any performer is that they should know themselves before they enter the spotlight, and I didn't. I was just Neil and I did what I was supposed to do. I was supposed to get married, so I got married. I was supposed to get a job, so I looked for work.

I'm always distressed by the supposedly bright people who don't know what they are.

Being vice-captain at Chelsea, I've learned to manage my emotions better this season and have matured massively, but part of that is embracing those feelings of disappointment rather than suppressing them and pretending everything is OK.