Quotes About Self-awareness

After 'Jungle,' people have realized that I'm not just a sex symbol.

I find the whole concept of women screaming at me so odd. It's very flattering, but I don't think I will ever consider myself to be a sex symbol.

I'm not a sex symbol.

I'm passionate about being an actor, but I'm definitely not passionate about being a sex symbol.

I didn't want to be a sex symbol. That was perhaps my mistake, but you can't really change who you are.

Do you know I'm a sex symbol?

Well, I guess this sex symbol stuff is a nice compliment, but I don't walk around thinking of myself as a sex symbol.

If I weren't the way I am, I shouldn't write my symphonies.

The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself.

I don't really have Down's syndrome; I just have a slight case of it.

I still deal with impostor syndrome. It's a very real thing.

Impostor syndrome, or feeling like a fraud at work, at home, or anywhere else in your life, will probably affect you at some point.

I am a big self-doubter. I suffer from Impostor Syndrome. Whenever I start a new job, I think: 'I'm going to be found out.' I don't have a huge ego or enormous belief in my own talent.

I had a pretty rough life. I got caught up in the star syndrome. It's not something I'm proud of, but it's something that I'm glad is over.

I'm slightly concerned, because as a centre-half who took a lot of knocks to the head I'm not normally synonymous with being a fashion icon.

Reading is often thought of as a form of escapism, and it's a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a book. But a book can also be where one finds oneself...

Life, basically, is a nightmare until you learn to control the dream.

Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean.

There are people who will try to make you choose between who you are and who they want you to be. You have to watch out for those people.

Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean. It's like how turning on a light makes you realize how dark the room had gotten. And the way you usually act, the things you would have normally done, are like these ghosts that everyone can see but pretends not to.

Miriam says that sometimes, when we don't want to 'look hard at our behavior,' we look hard at everything else instead...

Simmy entertained slippery thoughts about identity and the meaning of any individual's span on earth. When it came right down to it, she supposed that all a person really amounted to was the sum of their memories.

When you feel the stitches holding the illusion of yourself together begin to stretch and pop, and you can't sew fast enough to keep the stuffing in.

In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.