Quotes About Self-awareness

I don't feel like a very nostalgic person. I think about the past much more clinically. When I look back and wonder, 'Why was I doing that? Was it a waste of time?' I don't beat myself up. Instead, I say, 'I'm so glad I did that, because now I really know what matters to me.'

When I first started, they were trying to get me into sitcoms - I think because I had that kind of Wonder Bread look and my hair always went into place. I kept saying, 'I'm not good at sitcoms. I don't know how to do that.'

Sometimes I think I'm real predictable to myself and other times... you always wonder, Is this really what I wanted to do? Did I make a mistake? Should I be doing something else?

I've had some styles that make me wonder what the hell I was thinking. How did I let someone do that to me?

There was definitely a moment, a time after 'The Hand That Rocks the Cradle', when I did get offered a lot of women in jeopardy-type roles. But I couldn't do it, physically, I just couldn't. But now I know what I know, I wonder if I should have played the whole fame game a little more.

When you're a kid you have this sense of wonder and wholeness and a strong sense of your own identity.

But I always see myself as the filmmaker. I wonder if everybody else sees me more as an actor.

Don't paint a nasty picture of your exes. We'll justifiably wonder what made you stay in those heinous situations in the first place.

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it's probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we'll eat, what we'll do, what we'll think about, what we'll say... and on and on.

I always admired Wonder Woman and the Incredible Hulk - but I don't know if I'd be a very convincing hulk.

I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.

I always wondered what hearing one's own obituary might sound like, and I sort of feel like I may have just heard part of it at least.

I wondered if I would talk about drug use. But I guess, why hide it?

Many's the audition I waltzed into unprepared and wondered why I didn't get it. I learned the hard way.

I've always wondered why I'm so tall.

I've got every possible thing I could want. And I wondered, 'Why am I so depressed?' I still don't know sometimes.

I cannot tell a lie, and I'm very straightforward. Sometimes this hurts people. I've wondered if I should change, but I feel more comfortable about myself this way.

Thoughts are fine when you don't confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.

Relationships are beautiful, and it's wonderful to find someone you can spend time with and share your life with. But there's also a lot of pressure attached to that. And I think you can't be in a relationship until you have discovered yourself fully.

I'm not nearly as important as I used to think I was. It's a wonderful discovery.

It's a wonderful thing to be able to make fun of yourself and to do it in a way that sort of preserves your dignity but, at the same time, lets you play the theater of the absurd.

Being virtuous is wonderful thing, but feeling virtuous is a shortcut to vice.

Crazy people don't sit around wondering if they're nuts.

I spent many years seeking self-awareness and wondering what I should be doing on this planet.