Quotes About Self-awareness

The sign of a great leader is knowing what you know and knowing what you don't know.

I don't think I am a great man.

I think that was always my strength. I was never a great player, but I could write.

I didn't have any great talent. I didn't want to become a rock star or an author.

The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore.

Even during my career, when I read all those great things about me, it's almost like I was reading about someone else. It's almost like there was another person.

You can read 50 great things about yourself, but the one bad thing will be what you remember most.

Most of us are at war with ourselves, are our own worst enemies. We expect a great deal of ourselves, yet we do not put ourselves in a condition to achieve great things. We are either too indulgent to our bodies, or we are not indulgent enough.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

I don't necessarily want to hear about my talent or my greatness as an actor.

I am a greedy, selfish bastard. I want the fact that I existed to mean something.

There are a lot of grey areas in my personality. We all have them.

I don't even know who my character is in 'Grey's.'

I have been grey since I was 20 years old!

I think I was an alcoholic. There are all these grey areas about what makes you an alcoholic - you can't cope without it, you stop caring about jobs and relationships, or you just binge.

I am commodifying my grief, to put it really bluntly. I accept it. And I try not to think about it.

I can laugh at my own grief.

I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called.

Sometimes you have to hit rock bottom to think: 'Blimey, Ricky, get a grip.'

Well, our children do know what this industry is about, but they have a good grip on who they are.

I'm a gross human being.

I'm grounded in who I am.

I feel I need to have people outside of show business who keep me grounded and define who I am.

I'm grounded, I can say that. I can say that. I am, and it's great. I don't know where it comes from. But I've always been like that.