Quotes About Self-awareness

For me, meditation is a practice to get rid of useless junk cluttering my mind and useless ticks inhabiting my body.

Anger can be a good thing. It's a mechanism that your brain uses to get you out of situations that are bad for you. But in terms of leading a peaceful life, it is not very productive.

I was never interested in looking at myself in an aesthetic mirror. My intention was always to get away from myself, though I knew perfectly well that I was using myself. Call it a little game between 'I' and 'me.'

You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.

Today I start a diary; it is against my usual habbits, but out of a clearly felt need.

I don't want to just keep playing for the sake of playing. The day I realise I'm not good enough, I'll go. I want to play as long as I can - not just to make up the numbers but to play with utmost passion.

To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.

A few weeks ago I went to a screening of 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire' at Utopia. I'm not a very introspective person but when I get on that stage, it feels even more overwhelming than showing my films at the Cannes film festival. Because standing there, I'm so close to my past. I can see how far I've come.

There is part of me that will always feel wrong for any leading man-type, charming guy or whatever. I am not that guy. I am so weird. I say inappropriate things, and if I have any charm at all, it's in my utter lack of charm.

I've gone to great lengths not to be a guru. I think the notion of guruhood is utterly pathological, and I couldn't live that way. I am just a person.

Every nation, like every individual, would like to believe it owes 'no apology' to anyone. Adults realise, however, that few among us are purely innocent or utterly blameless.

Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part.

As an actor, if you're just sitting and staring and you don't know who you are in your own mind, it's vacant. And sometimes the camera is an X-ray machine, it can pick it up.

I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realise that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.

He who is vain and delights in his own ability is deceived by his inferiors. When he likes to bring forth arguments and kindliness, his inferiors take advantage of his abilities.

I'm as vain as the next guy. I have a facade on right now. But you can't see it, because it's reality-based.

I may be a vain person, but I'm not a vain performer.

I have never been vain. I don't take myself seriously. I don't consider myself sexy or good-looking.

I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.

Sam Duvet is like me but turned up: more vain and dumber.

I'm so vain, all I could think was I should have stopped at 'American Pie.'

The joke I always make about myself is that I'm self-involved, but I'm not vain.

I'm too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.

I don't get self-conscious. I'm not vain in that way.