Quotes About Self-awareness

I can relate to anything. I once played Macbeth. I got a lot of laughs, so I quit.

My rule is: the second you find yourself doing something you hate, quit doing it.

I don't think many people want to say to themselves that they've quit. At the same time, we've all failed in our lives, we've all failed at different things in different ways and I think there's a lot to be said about facing that failure squarely.

It's one thing for other people to see potential in you, and it's quite another for you to understand that and see it in yourself.

Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.

If you know me, you know I mutter quite a bit. Not one of my most redeeming qualities.

I pick my nose quite a bit.

I don't go around saturated in guilt or anything like that. I do worry about things quite a lot, but I don't feel as though I am a bad person.

I've played a lot of very posh, sort of noble or aristocratic English people, which is nothing like what I am, so I feel that there is quite a lot distance there and have played a little bit far away from myself.

Quite frankly I don't know how to be happy. I have not a clue.

I fell upon Jenny Saville's work and loved these great big pieces she was painting, celebrating all things flesh and woman, and with great big Simone Beauvoir quotations written in mirror writing so you had to look at yourself in the pictures to read them.

I'm not an inspirational quote kind of person.

I do not quote my own movies. I think I would be pretty insufferable if I did.

You may be able to read Bernard Shaw's plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education?

Please don't erase my race because I'm white-passing. There is literally nothing I can do about my complexion.

When I crash during a race and injure myself, what's the point in whinging? Because I put myself in that position. No one's making me race motorbikes - I want to go and race motorbikes. The most annoying thing for me is lying in hospital and not being able to get to work. I get beside myself.

You have to first of all feel good with yourself before doing something which requires being fast or driving a racing car.

Who's on my radar? I don't have a radar. I always look at myself as a top athlete. They come after me. I don't go after them because I'm where they want to be.

I personally don't feel the need to be radical for its own sake, but I probably couldn't if I tried anyway.

I thought I was really a radical, political person, which of course I am not.

When you drive by Radio City and you see your name up there and it's only 'your' name. I just went 'ooh'. I thought this is really like looking at another person.

George Raft may or may not have gone both ways, but he was very sensitive to what they said about him, and it was one factor why he decided to play all those gangsters in the movies.

Not to rag on myself, but when people say, 'What does it feel like to be an icon?' I'm like, 'My dog does not think I'm an icon, my cat does not think I am an icon, my cousin does not think I am an icon.' I have a really lovely group of friends, and I just don't think about it.

I'm an awful driver. I'm not going to lie about it. I'm not a good driver. I tried for a long time to pretend that I was. There's a lot of road rage and a lot of times it's directed at something I've done on the road.