Quotes About Self-awareness

When you're 12, you have no gauge for what's hip or not hip - or even who you are.

I don't believe I've ever played a hip dude. I don't think I would have the wherewithal to do that.

I'm going to stick to what I can do... because if I try and,,, do the impossible, I will either get too frustrated to the point where I won't enjoy the sport anymore, or I will get hurt and maybe have to get hip replacements at age 30.

I know what I'm good at, and if I'm asked to do something I'm not - like hip-hop dancing - I get self-conscious.

I'm not sure I'd hire myself in anything. I certainly couldn't be an actor. That would be terrible. For everyone.

I think I probably think about myself as an actor, which is the way most people do. I think I'm good, I don't think I'm great. I think I would hire somebody else to play me in the movie about me.

You have to accept people for who they are. You can guide. You can give people chances. But you cannot hold on to people in fear that you are bad because you can't keep everyone you've hired.

If I were FX, I wouldn't have hired me.

I am the happiest Hispanic I've ever met. Truly.

Recounting their histories, people often sound like interested bystanders to their own lives.

You can't supervise your own history.

I got to start limiting the hits I take on myself.

I realized some of the films I did, after a few hits that I had, they weren't working for me because I wasn't comfortable in the roles I was playing. That's why probably people thought I was a bad actress and I don't blame them.

I am a woman, so I never want to hide that or be like, 'I'm one of the boys,' because I'm not. I am aware of our audience. We always aim for the right combo of not hitting people over head but still getting our message across.

For me, I'm not going to be hitting the ball out of the ballpark. I know that.

I'm not stereotypically Canadian. I don't really follow hockey. I don't feel like anything other than myself, basically.

I was kind of smart enough when I was young, 14 or 15 years old, to realize that if you're ever going to do anything and step out of the shadow of your own dad - not only in hockey, but in life itself - you're going to have to learn you're Brett and not 'Bobby's son.'

I'm awful at hockey.

I have met people who have called me the god of hockey, but in my head, I know who I am.

I'm an absolutely dreadful hockey player.

I don't think you're going to see any hockey player tell the media or anyone they're the best player in the world. It's just not who we are.

Activism isn't about holding your faults up to the light. That's what comedy is about, it's about saying, 'Look at this person who is so flawed and frail and damaged. And we're all this frail and damaged so let's laugh at it.'

I'm all for holding each other accountable, but it feels as if we're hurling toward a society of finger-pointers, because we don't hold ourselves accountable for anything.

I know who I am, and I know what my future holds.