Quotes About Self-awareness

Women have said the most malicious, disgusting things about me. But I know that when somebody comments about you, good or bad, it is 99 percent of the time their projection of how they feel about themselves.

I used to read a lot about myself and the projects I was doing. When I was only acting, I wouldn't read any reviews because I didn't find them to be very helpful.

Currently I'm not a crazy ex-girlfriend, but I can't promise I won't be one again.

I want people to see me for who I am and not for how someone else is trying to promote me.

I promote my own self-hatred.

I always wrote about myself in the third person. I knew how to promote myself so it sounded intelligent. I know how to package myself.

I have never seen myself as a promoter. I always evaluate myself as a manager.

I am naturally prone to fun or to be funny, but when I talk about myself in interviews, then it's an intellectual exercise.

I am very up front about about my inability to pronounce things correctly.

I have this idea of myself that I decided when I was 12 about who I am and how I come across and what the world is like. And if I have changed or the world has changed, I don't even notice sometimes because I'm holding on to these old ideas. I am more confident - the music is proof. But I can see the change there much easier than I do as a human.

All writing is propaganda for the self.

A lot of guys don't want to admit that they have a propensity for generosity and for violence.

I know I mispronounce things constantly, because maybe I read more than I talk, but I don't know the proper way to say a lot of things, even though I know what they are. But then I know I look like a moron.

That's the thing, you see, we were never good enough to write proper punchlines.

There are times when you come across somebody that's really impressive, someone that's got a proper living and really does make a difference to people's lives. Then I do feel a bit of a wanker, admitting I'm an actress. That's hard to say to someone who may be making a difference. But I don't know how I could change things.

The Internet has perceived me as this fantastic dancer. I can still do a couple pirouettes, but I am by no means a proper dancer.

The thing about awards is that a lot of those moments are about the whole world telling you that you deserve it and rah, rah, rah. I'm very appreciative of that, but I love experiencing stuff by myself. Because it feels different. You know the truth, and you can hear what the voice in your head is saying properly.

They said my voice was terrible, nervous, and spotty and that I must go away and learn how to use it properly. I must admit I was rather agape, since I had never thought about making my voice better.

What I was doing wasn't good enough. It was good enough up until I met someone who was doing it properly - someone who was stronger than me and in better mental and physical condition than I was.

It was hard to admit I had a problem when I still had money, property, prestige. How can I have a problem when I'm driving my new Mercedes, and it's paid for, and I have a house at Malibu?

Anytime you're sitting there writing a book about yourself, it's a pretty self-fulfilling prophecy, I guess.

I don't want to pretend to be a prophet or a saint. I'm very conscious of my limitations. I know my flaws. But I don't like lying.

I'm not as good a prose writer as I'd like to be, but I never aspired to that.

As you get older, you realize you're only the protagonist in your own story and a blip in someone else's life.