Quotes About Self-awareness

I know straight away if I can do better. It doesn't take people to criticise me for me to realise it.

I had some terrible times - comparatively speaking. I saddled myself with a load of debt, I wasn't liked by a lot of my fellow comics and I used to blame other people for me not getting a break. But now I realise I just wasn't very good. And as soon as I became good, things took off pretty quickly.

When I was at drama school, people weren't taking pictures of themselves every five minutes. So I didn't realise how I looked. It was only when people started taking pictures of themselves that I looked at myself and thought: 'Oh my God, I look really miserable.' Even when I'm happy I look sad.

I thought, 'I don't really drink that much.' But when you stop completely it is a shocker. You realise that a glass here, going to a function there, they all tot up.

After many years of self-flagellation, I've realised that beating myself up doesn't get me anywhere.

When I played in goal at Stamford Bridge, I realised that's not my best position.

I didn't realise I had a speech impediment until I came back to England. I spent the whole of my life working abroad, and no-one mentioned it. I came back to England and suddenly realised I had a speech impediment.

I worked for Satan most of my life and then one day I looked at myself I realised the harm that my lifestyle was doing.

I realised that if you get yourself labeled as the funny one, people don't look any further. I've used that as I've got older. It's controlling: I decide what part of my personality you're seeing. I don't want you to look at me, I really don't. I don't want you to comment on my clothes, my hair or the way I look.

When I realised I had a facility for humour, I latched on to it, and it gave me confidence and I built my personality around it. So I subconsciously made myself become the funny one so that would be my label rather than the ginger one or the red-faced one.

I like this idea of becoming fully realised.

I realised that people respond to banal things. They don't accept their own history, not participating in acceptance within their own being.

It wasn't until school that we realised that we were abnormal.

I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the 'Today' programme and item four on the news was: 'The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership.' I lay there thinking that's interesting, then I realised it was me.

When I kept a diary, I realised that it was all moanings and depression, and I think that is quite common.

I'd not really ever expected to play anything like 'Hamlet.' I hadn't seen myself as a natural Hamlet, whatever a natural Hamlet is, and I quickly realised there is no such thing.

I remember, from aged six to nine, I was loud and abrasive and loved making noise and loved playing instruments and doing all those things. When I was about ten, I realised I could get attention by doing that, so when I was eleven, I started writing songs.

Starting with a meagre amount of Rs 300 as a conductor, when I became an actor and started seeing huge moneys like Rs 3 or 4 lakhs, I thought I was 'an exclusive creation' by God, and he had made me like this. Later, I got the wisdom and realised that my time was good and things worked out! And I was also a normal human being like others.

I'm musical in the sense that I can write a song, but I realised when I was learning the piano as a child that there were people who played it so much better.

I have realised it is easy to point fingers at others, but the moment you start questioning yourself, you become a better person.

After my second and third movies, which did not click, I realised I should not do something that's too heavy.

My first ambition was musical theatre, but I realised quite early on that I wouldn't make the grade.

I used to brush aside when people used to say 'Poonam, you're different.' It was much later that I realised, I was different.

I've always been good at realising what went wrong and stuff, and I was always being able to look at the positives from it.