Quotes About Self-awareness

I can sometimes feel like I'm an aggressive man inside. I'm not going to show that on social media.

As you live your life and accumulate friends, both IRL and on social media, ask yourself, are you a bully too?

I am not generally regarded as a pleasant or socially minded fellow.

I did struggle with what I want to say socially, but it's important to reflect where I'm at mentally.

I knew I wasn't going to be any great shakes as an actor - the way I looked, I would play the soda jerk or the friend of a friend.

We don't always know exactly what we're doing as parents. Children don't come with instruction manuals, as the saying goes. So it's important to me that I always question the choices I'm making as a father, to really stay alert and open to the balance between being too hard or too soft.

You have to know when to be arrogant. You have to when to be humble. You have to know when to be hard and you have to know when to be soft.

I don't have any huge desire to show you all that I'm not tough and strong, that I'm all feminine and soft. That's not a huge longing that I have because I know who I am.

I probably should be a little more cautious with how I speak, and I think my delivery needs to be a little softer.

I've definitely sold some Twitter shares. I don't own as many as I used to, because I'm not an idiot, but I own more than I should because I'm an idiot.

I would have been a disastrous soldier.

What I discovered is that there has always been a soldier inside me; I just didn't know it.

Acting is what I do. It's not what I solely define myself as.

I don't view myself as a 'trans actor' or a 'trans model.' I mean, I am - it's part of who I am - but it's not something that solely defines me.

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you're solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.

I was really conscious of that when I went in because I felt that I was pretty solid on the first one, but I didn't have the groove exactly where I wanted it.

Sexy at the millennium means having a solid sense of self but never taking yourself too seriously.

I wanted to focus on creating a solid foundation, creating my blueprint, and understanding who I was. You can get distracted easily, and people take you off course with just a compliment. I wanted the focus to be on Karen Civil the businessperson, not what I wore, not what I looked like.

It's taken me a long time to work out what people are thinking and what they're expecting. I am naturally solitary, and I'm comfortable with that.

I didn't mind the 23 hours a day solitary confinement for the majority of the time, because after the first few years in prison, when I stopped being angry and started to like myself and understand myself, it was OK. I still enjoy my own company sometimes.

I owe my solitude to other people.

Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.

The myth of my solitude makes me laugh.