Quotes About Self-awareness

Before I had my heart problem, if I was asked to do something I would look through a mental file looking for reasons why I could say no.

One thing I always think about is, at the end of the day, nobody really cares about you as much as they do about themselves. It's a very reassuring thing, in a good way. Pay attention to yourself, and use that energy and put it towards yourself.

I'm not rebellious. I try to be rebellious, but I don't walk around being rebellious for no reason.

I think it's a mistake to try and overthink how you are going to be received, because that assumes that you are going to be received in the first place.

Don't act like you've arrived when you're just receiving the invitation.

I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.

I have been a woman for 46 years and I only recently realized I can't change it and I like it.

I always thought I was depressive, and I only recently realized that I have more of an anxiety disorder than chronic depression.

I'm a piano player and singer who can't play piano very well or sing very well. That isn't a recipe for success. I have to get better.

I reckon I'm actually one of the least funny in my family.

There isn't a day when I don't look in the mirror and think, 'How in the hell did I become a conservative Republican?' It's still a weird reckoning, because it shouldn't have happened.

This is the essence of all sciences - that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning arrives.

You need to learn to say no and need to recognise when you're being exploited.

I've no idea what they make of me. People usually don't recognise themselves in an impression.

My work is not my life. I started writing quite late, I didn't have that 'writing is everything, my art is all.' You have to be able to recognise the difference between the two.

Comedy works best when people recognise themselves.

I was so driven that sometimes you don't recognise all the good things that are happening to you.

I do not know at what moment in life, if ever, we realise that we are neither George Sands nor Juliets. Of course, if we are not beautiful, we recognise early that beauty is nothing.

Things that I now recognise as just part of my personality - willfulness and assertiveness, maybe even a bit of aggressiveness - these are things that I had been raised to think of as masculine features. I always thought there was probably something wrong with me.

I suppose what happened is that I spent my whole life wanting to be cool but eventually came to recognise the mechanism of how coolness works. So it's not really that I don't want to be cool anymore - it's more like I've come to realise that coolness doesn't exist the way I once assumed.

I like my privacy. I was completely okay when people didn't recognise me.

You have to be able to hold up a mirror to your personality at drama school and recognise the flaws. That's hard to do as a 17-year-old. But it's easier to cope with when you're a little bit older.

I've been portrayed as a womanising football hooligan, but I don't recognise that person.

I never get recognised. I must have one of those forgettable faces, ha! And that's not a bad thing.