Quotes About Self-awareness

In high school, I definitely fancied myself an intense guy, which is so lame.

Usually I feel kind-of normal and lame, and then I'll go to the coffee shop and someone'll say, 'You rock!' And then I'll remember how awesome I am.

I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.

I'm the shyest megalomaniac you're ever likely to meet.

If I were immersed in constant melancholy, I would not be who I am.

I wouldn't say that I've mellowed. I'm less mellow, perhaps.

I'm a very mellow person. There are things about me that are intense, obviously.

I'm not driven by fame or success. I'm quite a shy, introverted person, and I could easily melt away into the background.

On Towie' everyone is like 'Oh look at Megan she's having a meltdown, she's crying over someone' but no, I just want them to see me not doing stupid things.

I'm so different from the egotistical, self-centred person I was when I did those things. And to watch someone acting out your memories on the screen is like reliving it. Like someone taking you back and showing you what you did.

I actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories.

If I had even the tiniest scrap of advice to give to a young actor who was figuring out how to audition, I would say don't memorize the script... The reality about auditions is that 98 percent of the results has to do with what you are, not with what you did in the audition.

I have lost my short-term memory - I'm just getting blonder by the day.

I'm much calmer as I get older, but I'm still just as capable of getting that strung-out stressed-out feeling of mental and spiritual unwellness.

Perhaps I'm absolutely bonkers and don't know it. Perhaps I'm psychotically mental.

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.

Having a sense of humor about yourself is a sign of mental health.

I've met people who don't know who they are, but only know who they are online. When I'm separating Bretman Rock and Bretman, it's really just to help with my mental health. The Internet is not real life.

I know I'm not a self-indulgent idiot; I also know I'm not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed either of those, or both, as some people do when they get famous, that's when the mental illness arrives.

Eating was my only way of controlling my life, or so I thought. When you are addicted or suffering from a mental illness, you think you're in complete control. But the opposite is true. You are, in fact, completely out of control.

Once you can accept that you have a mental illness, that is when you can work on it.

If someone does something that makes me mad, well, chances are it'll probably make other people mad if I do it, too. I like to think, 'What's the meanest thing, the rudest thing I can say right now?' Or how can I completely discredit someone? That's just my mentality.

I thought I was pretty average height. And then it just clicked to me - 'Yo, you're undersized.' I guess when I got older and my body started hurting, I'm like, 'I'm not as big as I thought I was.' So I always played with the mentality that I was bigger than I actually was.

When you're mentally ill, sometimes you're so self-involved that you forget how much you're hurting all the people around you who love you so much, because you don't understand that you've got to get help.