Quotes About Self-awareness

I said yes too much. I said yes to certain projects that weren't for me. It was somebody else's vision and somebody else's dream and somebody else's artistic endeavor, but it didn't necessarily fit in my grand scheme.

I'm not the grand poobah. I'm not the emperor. That's not what I want to be.

My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black.

My grandparents have taught me that since I was younger: just to be involved in a whole bunch of different things so you don't get burnt out, and you know what you like to do and what you don't like to do.

He'd forgiven who he needed to forgive, let go of what he needed to, and accepted himself as he was. Archibald Alexander Leach, Cary Grant, and all.

Cary Grant is really the master of not taking himself so seriously.

When you don't take what you have for granted, you constantly try to re-prove yourself to yourself rather than to other people.

I don't want to take fame for granted because that is when you start to think you are better than everyone else. That is when you start thinking that you are someone that you are not.

When I was 18 or 19, I would come into training, and I'd be the last in and first out. I was one of those that took everything for granted, and I'm honest about that now.

For me, 'Bigg Boss' was like a correction centre. I think every man and woman in every state should be sent there. People take so many things for granted. They will learn to appreciate what they have once they have spent some time in the house.

I don't keep a record of the parts I've played, and I don't compare characters, but maybe I should? I could construct a graphic that grades badness and madness levels? Interesting idea.

Nobody goes, 'I'm a top 10 fighter. Well, maybe Top 15. I can beat a lot of guys'... Nobody ever says that. That's the thing with having a grasp on reality. I know I'm not the best.

I'm not one of those people who needs that gratification of doing, like, 10 films a year.

It's very gratifying sometimes to make yourself the butt of the joke because it bursts your bubble.

I have a lot of deficiencies, but gratitude is not one of them.

It was a conscious decision to stop in 2010 because the roles coming my way were terrible and I would have dug my grave had I continued.

Because I'm short, I have a low center of gravity and I know how to use my weight. If I don't want nobody to pick me up, they can't. They'll catch a hernia trying.

Whenever I put on a colored thing, I feel like I'm in a costume. Like when I put on a gray shirt.

All great art allows us this: a glimpse across the limits of our self.

I'm not a great believer in self-help.

I don't claim any great experience or expertise.

People go to their jobs and hate it every day, but they have great ideas. Put that same time and effort into something you love - it really starts with being honest with yourself.

I have learned in life that the best thing you can do to create a great future for yourself is don't forget what's in front of you. And so I'm trying to do a great job at HUD.

I'm not a great manager; I try to be a great leader. And for me, that's been going through a process of not how to be a great CEO but how to be a great Evan, and that's really been the challenge.