Quotes About Self-awareness

Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important.

I usually focus on monitoring my acting.

I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor.

When I would be myself, I was being big-headed. I was being egotistical. I was a megalomaniac, when it really was just having not to be a monkey for a few hours a day. And fulfilling the need to be a man.

I have no inner monologue.

I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either.

I don't know how else to say it: I'm a monster.

I liked being the monster that was bigger than everybody around me.

The monsters are in your own head.

Because I'm so big, you have to look at me. I think of myself as a monument. But sometimes I like to feel small.

When I exercise, I need to connect to myself and see how I'm feeling at the moment because my mood is constantly changing.

Don't shop when you're hungry or in a grumpy mood. You need to feel happy and confident to make the best decisions.

I have never gone for a diagnosis and I don't consider myself to be bipolar, but I have extreme moods. I get heightened. I get very overexcited. But I do get very low, too... I don't know whether it's inherited or learned.

I wouldn't live with me, believe me. I'm moody.

I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.

I'm the black Demi Moore.

I appreciate both good and bad - I don't want to sit in a bubble where everyone just tells me everything positive to keep my morale high.

More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself.

More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from.

Every day I get more and more honest.

I didn't get a lot of questions asked earlier in my career, I guess. But I've always been the same guy, more or less.

We'll play somewhere like London, playing to 2,000 people easy, and every time you play with more people, you think, 'You're a rock star,' and it makes you laugh. I guess I am, but I'm also, you know, not.

Actually, for me, it's really funny because I play characters with mommy issues more than anything, and I have a great relationship with my mom!

I'm hugely self-critical in the morning.