Quotes About Self-awareness

I think I'm a mousepad. I don't want to be a mousepad, but I'm a mousepad. I'm also a screen saver, thank you very much. It's weird.

In an acting career, you need to reach a stage where you can say 'Thank you very much, I can't do this role because I have done this before or I don't like it.'

I'm grateful for my brokenness. I'm grateful for my humility.

Thankfully, I was given a strong base by my parents, an understanding of who I was and my strength.

I wouldn't change anything. I've made mistakes, but thanks to those mistakes, I've learned.

Aaron Sorkin has been incredibly good to me; I don't know that I would have an acting career without him. Thanks to him, people think I'm smart and nice, but I'm neither.

From the time I was ten, I thought of myself as 'good with words,' thanks to a perceptive and supportive fifth grade teacher.

The first thing a writer needs to know is what kind of writer he/she is.

You have to be aware of your own shortcomings. The main thing I try not to do is lose my temper. Doing live interviews on television, you learn not to say the first thing that comes into your head.

The first thing I do when I start a role is I look to see where we're similar. What do you get for nothing, you know?

Sometimes you're encouraged, and other times disappointed. It's a matter of going in and precluding all that with, 'This is what I do, not who I am.' I need to be who I am in the process of doing what I do. I need to stay true to what it is I'm really here for. And that's the hardest thing, the biggest challenge.

Listening to your instincts, while being the easiest, can also be the hardest thing to do.

The hardest thing for anyone is to admit you have a problem and then to act on it.

The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.

I thought I was okay in my first film, and then I was really, really bad in some films. I really cringe when I see some of my scenes. There's a scene in one film where a dog is biting me; the expressions I have made should be qualified as the most over-acted scene in the history of the cinema. The dog's expressions were more real than mine.

The most important thing about a person is that you know who you are and what you want. You should be capable of introspection and evaluate yourself.

The most important part of the body is the brain. Of my face, I like the eyebrows and eyes. Aside from that, I like nothing. My head is too small.

Seeing what you want from life from the inside out, rather than from the outside in, is the most important thing.

I promise my students that if they take the time to figure out their life purpose, they'll look back on it as the most important thing they discovered while at school. If they don't figure it out, they will just sail off without a rudder and get buffeted in the very rough seas of life.

One of the most important things you can do in your life is to learn to pull back the curtain of fear so you can see it for what it really is - the enemy blowing a lot of smoke and pushing your buttons.

I believe that the people who are close to me know who I am and that's the most important thing for me.

The most important thing about my life is this integrity, and you can't lie to yourself.

It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.

People accuse me of being Methody, but I'm not at all. The one thing I don't want people to see is me. I don't want them to be able to recognize my faults and failures and qualities, and I won't use those things to spark off emotions or to illustrate.