Quotes About Self-awareness

I have a lot of people judging my every move. It's important for me to not let it rule my life.

When you have something that you did so many jobs on and were so front and center on, and then people dislike it, you want to learn lessons from it, and you want to move on, and you want to move on too fast.

I always assess what's my fault, but I don't dwell on mistakes, I never have; it's not part of my make up. I know what I am and know what I can do. You just move on.

You have to know what you did wrong, sure, but ask yourself: why? Improve it, move on. You have to live with pressure.

I don't really watch my moves all that often; I mean, really, I don't.

What was weird for me after 'Amelie' was how people look at you. It moves all your relationships and sometimes even your intimate ones, and you don't understand why suddenly everything around you changes, because you are exactly the same person.

I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.

If somebody wants to think of me as a movie star, that's fine, that's great. It sort of makes me giggle.

I looked in the mirror and saw a lot of stuff, but 'movie star' was never one of them.

I read an article some years back in which Emma Thompson demeaned my mother's acting ability. My mother would be the first person to say that she wasn't the best actress in the world. But she was a movie star.

If you don't have the right people around you and you're moving at a million miles an hour you can lose yourself.

There was a time when I was making a lot of money and moving very fast. I didn't like who I was. I could tell by the company I was keeping.

I have worked very hard on being aware of my childhood but moving forward and not letting it bring me down emotionally. That is a hard thing - especially when you have children of your own and you remember what happened to you at that age.

Every start is an opportunity to get better and to learn how your body is feeling and what you need to do moving forward. It's been an evolution throughout the year.

I don't want people paying too much attention about what I am outside of football, what I'm doing, and asking: 'Who is N'Golo?'

If I don't get enough attention, I want more attention. If I have too much attention, I want it to stop. It is not always easy to understand myself.

I tend not to pay too much attention to the person marking me.

I think I always resented the fact that people thought I was trying to entertain them with my multifaceted, chameleonlike character changes. Although I liked doing that, I wasn't out to fool people and say 'Guess which one is me.'

My mum has always said I am too hard on myself. But I have always been like that and it has always helped me. After matches I focus only on what I did wrong. Never what I did well.

I've tried and failed a lot. But I've also tried to be really clear about my brand. It is who I am. I'm a mum, I'm a wife, I'm 44 and from the Midwest.

I don't think of myself as an actress. I still think I'm fannying around in my mum's front room.

My dad was a different bloke to me and not very nice to my mum, although I never judge him. If you did, you'd become one of those people who is all-consumed by a fault in their past. And I haven't got the time for it.

I've always been quite insecure. I had followed Mum and Dad into TV and yet in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't for me.

I just knew I had it, but my mum and dad were always great, and it was always a thing I had but a thing that wasn't bad. It was just saying like, I have brown hair, I have brown eyes, and I've got cerebral palsy.