Quotes About Self-awareness

When you first start working, you take whatever job is offered, because you have to build your resume. But you don't think about what you're building.

The 'boy next door' parts I get offered, I don't find interesting.

It's funny because I was offered film parts the first week after 'The Office' went out. I was sent a script, and I said, 'Who's the lead?' They said, 'We want you to be.' And I said: 'Well, who's going to go and see that? You want John Cusack.'

I've definitely read stuff that I've been offered where I've been like, 'I can't do this. I think somebody would be better in this than me.' I don't want to do something if I don't feel like I can do a good job serving the material.

Often, when I want to consult my impulses, I cannot find them.

Oh, I can't master the smoldering look to save my life.

I don't look at 'Deadpool' and think, 'Oh, that's a perfect movie.' I look at it and go, 'Oh, God, there's so much stuff I could do better.'

I think everyone in their 30s looks back at their 20s and thinks, 'Oh God, if I'd just done this and this, and not done that.'

Oh god, I'm a rubbish cook.

It actually takes me a few years before I can watch my own shows, and even then, it's still hard. I'll be like, 'Oh my god, that actor was so good with me in that scene, why didn't I see that and interact with him better?'

Every article starts that way: Zdeno Chara, six-foot-nine, big strong defenceman. I'm like, Oh my God, does every player get their weight and height listed before they write something about him? No.

If you're hired to be a funny person, you have to trust your judgment but also be open because sometimes you think something's funny, and the next day you read it and go, 'Oh, my God.'

When you hit your 40s, you're walking around, and you realize, 'Oh, my God, men don't look at me anymore.' Or sometimes you can feel really good, and then you look in the mirror, and you're like, 'Oh, Jesus, that's my face now!' But I have tell you that something happened and shifted inside of me.

I think every interaction I have, there's something I walk away going, Oh my God, I sound like a jerk. It's constantly happening.

I've always said that when people start saying, 'Oh my God, why doesn't this woman put down her bagpipes?' then I will. I just don't ever want to become like Cliff Richard.

If I look back at pictures of me when I was younger, oh my god. Nightmare!

I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.'

There's the cool factor, right? You see your face on a sign or your name on something, like, 'Ahh! Here I am!' And then there's a huge responsibility and the scary part of it, which is like, 'Now what happens?' And then you realize, 'Oh, yeah, this is my job.'

I've come to terms with the fact that if you're on TV, lots of people like you and lots of people hate you, and once you're OK with that, you apply it to everything.

It's OK to take time off and say to friends that I need to get well.

It's OK to get your feelings hurt.

I just want people to know it's OK to really feel their feelings.

As long as you know, within yourself, that you're no better than anyone else out there, you're OK.

Being in the business and growing up in L.A., I think I turned out pretty OK.