Quotes About Self-awareness

There's so many nice things about being single; you have yourself really present with you like 100 percent.

People say nice things about me but they don't know what's been going on between my ears.

I think of myself as kind of a hippy. Everyone around me says that's not the impression they get. They think I'm sassy. Apparently, I think I'm nicer than I really am.

'Bloody do-gooders' is my expression for people who are nicer than me, who are better than me.

A lot of people say I'm a lot nicer as a person than they thought I was, but I don't know what that means.

I knew I had a lot to offer, and it was just about finding my niche and figuring it out.

Nick hasn't seen me naked - I'm not a person who's constantly flinging my clothes aside and strutting about.

It took me years to separate Nick Foles the person from Nick Foles the football player.

If I had a nickel for every time I said 'Why me?' I'd have probably said 'Why me?' more often.

I just want to be Diego Sanchez. I don't need a nickname. I'm me.

I'm grounded in who I am, and I am a confident black man. A confident, Nigerian, black, chocolate man. I'm proud of my heritage, and no man can take that away from me.

I don't know why I am liked. I think it's probably because I've just been normal, not been flash or tried to hurt anybody. I'm not one for going out and going to nightclubs. I'd rather stay in and watch a good movie.

This is what gay nightlife is: It's about building an image. You are constantly in proprioception where you're clocking your own movement through space constantly.

It is a nightmare for me to watch myself on screen.

The nightmare? The nightmare was myself. I was my own nightmare.

British culture loves the image of itself in the mirror; it doesn't want to look deep inside, behind the eyes, inside the brain, inside where those shivers and nightmares lie.

There are certain nights you and your image just aren't in the same bed.

Some nights, I was so good that I could have become an egotist.

Believe it or not, I was all fully rounded by the time I was nine years old.

I discovered that I was gay when I was about nine or ten. I did go out with girls for a while, but it didn't last.

Self-examination with a close-up mirror in an antiseptic environment is what Nine Inch Nails is based on.

I have no business carrying myself like some diva.

If you take yourself too seriously, you've got no chance in this job. You cannot take yourself seriously.

I remember my first actual intense breakout was when I was 13, and I no clue what to do because I hadn't dealt with anything in that large of a scale ever before.