Quotes About Self-awareness

Forty is the line of demarcation that says you're an adult now. You're an adult, so don't pretend you're a kid anymore.

Jesus didn't die for us so we could pretend to be something we're not.

Everyone wants to pretend like they sprang out of the ground with an Animal Collective record in their hands and a David Bowie haircut, and that's just not the case. You discover these things gradually.

I don't pretend to be a great interviewer; I don't even pretend to be good at my job.

Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend mistakes never happened, I prefer to 'own' them. This allows me to learn from them and, with any luck, avoid making the same errors again.

As for the kind of writer I am? I am who I don't pretend to be.

I'm not going to pretend to know one more thing than I know.

Sadly, you can't just pretend that you haven't seen the creepy things that people have said about you. It's something that gets in your brain.

I'm very honest about my food background; I've never tried to pretend like I was a chef.

I just try not to pretend to be something I'm not.

But I don't let my bad feelings rule my life. I acknowledge them because I can't pretend they aren't there.

I can't pretend that I'm happy or pretend to get emotional when I'm not.

I wouldn't say I always have the talent to do something - I think I definitely probably have a moderate amount of talent - but I can pretend to have confidence or, I guess, charisma... It's so hard to look at myself like that.

I don't try to be something I'm not, I don't try to pretend that I'm something I'm not, I don't try to present myself as something I'm not.

When I do an impression of someone or when I am pretending to be someone else, something freaky happens: I feel the person I am mimicking behind my eyeballs. Their head is sitting perfectly inside mine, helping me project a false self out on to the world. And it's not always a choice.

I don't think it is important to be a role model, because if you are a role model, you are pretending to be someone else.

Women know what they're doing all the time, and they're pretending that they don't.

To anybody who says to me, 'I'm in character,' I say, 'You should be in an asylum.' If you don't know that you're pretending, then you should really seek medical help. I don't have patience for that stuff.

It's a challenge, writing about actors, especially a good actor, because you can't always tell when they're being honest and when they're pretending - that is, when they're acting. The really good ones don't always seem to know themselves.

Oh, I must be ambitious, mustn't I? I'm sure I always have been. I think you can only get away with pretending you're not for so long. After that, it becomes ridiculous.

I'm from really humble beginnings. I've never been this Hollywood diva, but you get caught up in what you're pretending to be.

When you're pretending to be something you're not, at least for me, you end up falling on your face.

I'm not trying to influence anyone else; I'm not saying, 'Do what I do.' I think it's a little pretentious to say, 'I'm a role model'; I would never say that, and I don't think of myself that way.

I have a dread of sounding pretentious and try not to talk too much about what I do.