Quotes About Self-awareness

I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal.

Actors are not always the best judges. We have a peculiar idea of what we think we are, and sometimes it's best left to others to decide what we play.

I'm not set on a pedestal where I think I'm too high and mighty.

I wouldn't put myself on the same pedestal as Sarah Lancashire.

I know that I'm probably far more pedestrian and less talented than many who dreamed of becoming writers but couldn't see the road so easily.

Trust your instinct. And if you can't tell what your instinct is telling you, learn how to peel back the noise in your life that is keeping you from hearing it.

Am I a peer mediator? Not a chance.

I kind of want to take the writer down a peg. I think there are a lot of pretentious writers in this business, which I am certainly one, in certain cases.

I have turned off Google Alerts and don't Google my name or my pen names. I don't go on message boards. I don't read my book reviews.

If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're not as good as we think we are.

People change. I wouldn't like to be accountable for the interviews I've done, or the person I was when I was 20, 21.

You're never as good as people say you are and you're never as bad as people say you are. You're always in the middle at some stage.

If I know what's true in my heart and my soul, then what people say can't shape that.

I do not think, like people say, that I am a guru or I know everything.

People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare.

It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

People say I'm bad at a lot of things. One I agree with is that I'm a bad driver.

Some people say I'm attractive. I say I agree.

There's a certain consistency to who I am and what I do, and I think people have finally said, 'Well, you know, I kinda get her now.' I've actually had people say that to me.

A lot of people say I am serious, but I don't think I am.

It's funny when people say you have sex appeal or call you the next Brad Pitt. I just laugh. I'm not that. I don't want to be that.

People say I'm a one-note actor, but the way I figure it, those other guys are just looking for that one right note.

People say you've got to be OK with your own company, but tell me why?

Well, I've never looked upon myself as being a beauty, per se.