Quotes About Self-awareness

We all have to let go of the Prince Charming complex and realize he doesn't necessarily exist in the package we assume he'll come in.

Don't let the Disney princess hair fool you.

If your ceiling is falling down, don't you call someone in? I apply the same principle to myself.

I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me, but that's not how I've chosen to lead my life. I knew that you put yourself under a microscope the more famous you become.

You take what you know, and you put it through your own prism. If I play characters that break down or cry, it's Gary Oldman crying; it's not the character crying.

I'm not obsessed by looks. I think you can become a prisoner of your own image.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

The less people know about you, the more you understand how beautiful life is. It's good when you exist only on screen. I don't want them to take me home. I love to have my privacy.

I'd like people to get a sense of who I am, yet I want to keep my privacy, too.

There's almost nothing that hasn't been said about me. But there's an awful lot that I haven't said. I don't talk about private things.

I think people kind of know me, although I am pretty private when it comes to my private life.

I just hope that I continue to keep a line between my private life and who I play, even if they are closely intertwined, and so I'm careful. I don't even know where my line is, but I know I have a line.

I'm a very private person. I barely tell my friends what's going on half the time, so the idea that I should then talk to the world about what is going on seems anathema to me. People can say what they want. I'm not going to change anyone's mind.

I'm actually a very private person. Sometimes I'm in denial that I'm really famous.

Just because I am private person doesn't mean I am not a good person.

I'm a private person. I don't want to write a book because I know the story and feel no need to tell it to anyone else.

Before my coming out, as it were, I was very much a private person.

There are so many things I've done that I'm glad I've done privately because it's so embarrassing just anyway.

Fame... it's been a challenge, let's put it that way. It's a privilege and a responsibility, and I'm not sure I carried the responsibility well at times, which is embarrassing. And I've had to look and be disappointed in myself occasionally for how I behaved in some circumstances.

I came from a privileged background, which I am entirely grateful for, but it played a part in my feeling that I couldn't complain about my own emotions.

It's such a privileged thing to say, but I'm still that same lazy person!

I'm never going to be in danger of getting the Nobel Prize for literature.

There's never been a moment where I sat down at my drawing board and thought, 'I'm a pro!'

Even as a pro, I still get a lot of advice from friends and family, like 'maybe you should shoot the ball more often,' 'you have to look for yourself more' and other things like that.