Quotes About Self-awareness

You can't come back to Australia and be like, 'I've been doing this and I've been doing this.' 'Cause they'll be like, 'Who do you think you are, mate?' Which is good! It keeps you really, y'know, grounded, I guess.

There's a downside to glamour and since I know that, I think that's why I have been able to stay grounded.

I am only this successful because I'm so good at grounding myself.

As you grow up, you become more comfortable with your own peccadilloes, and I'm bad with people who aren't self-motivated. And now, when I see them coming, I run the other way.

It took me a long time to grow up.

I feel like I've started to grow up and be more of a woman instead of this crazy girl.

I've been sort of coasting on 'Peep Show.' So now it's kind of, 'When I grow up, I'm going to have to be an actor if I'm not careful.'

I know myself, I'm learning myself. I'm growing, I'm maturing.

I'm just growing old, darling. I don't know about gracefully.

I'd never really considered film. If I'd thought about film more growing up, I probably would have changed my name. I had no concept of my name in lights.

I have a lot of growing up to do, or a lot of growing down. I think that's probably more appropriate.

I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.

But I don't think I've grown up to be a damaged adult.

Nobody took me too seriously but I was grown up even as a baby.

With big, emotional roles it's very easy, especially if you've grown up in the American school of acting, to exploit your own pain. You have to be careful about that, because 9 times out of 10, your pain is not appropriate to the character.

I didn't put out this album because I wanted everybody to know I was grown up. I'm 21 and that's not grown up.

I don't feel like I'm grown up. I feel like I'm a kid.

I've aged, but grown up? No.

I'm too young at 50. I'm not grown up yet. There's part of everybody like that.

I've gradually grown more comfortable with who I am and what I am.

As far as writing, it's grown because I've really grown comfortable with who I am.

I still feel like I haven't grown up.

Starting out, they told me: 'You're a good-looking guy. We'll put you in this role, and you can be a conduit for the audience into this side of the story.' But I've grown up, and that's not what I want anymore. My concept of the job I do has evolved. And it is a job, nothing more.

I think I may have become a grown man.