Quotes About Self-awareness

John Goodman has such a good way of breaking the ice. He's so good at being himself. A lot of people aren't really good at that. He knows that he's a legend. He knows that he's one of the greatest.

I never said I was the best in anything. I never said I'm an icon. The world decides all of that.

I ain't no icon. It's people like Patti LaBelle, somebody like that's an icon. I'm just Missy. I'm just crazy, that's all.

I'm not an icon. Not even in America.

I was never conscious that I was becoming an icon or I'm not an icon, because my family, my kids, my husband keep me down-to-earth.

I am not aware I am an icon.

I don't feel like an icon; I don't think of myself as an icon.

I don't think I'm in any way an icon, to be very honest.

I do not see myself as a celebrity or an icon or things like that... I have not really done anything.

I really don't know that I'm iconic. I don't even know that people think I'm cool.

What are you accepting that would not be a part of your ideal day?

I am not in the habit of making ideal claims.

There's all these idealistic things that TV and movies tell you that you should want to be. And when you're growing up, you find out what you really care about and what really matters.

I fantasize and idealize myself as Bugs Bunny, but I know deep down I'm Daffy Duck.

The biggest challenge is to fulfill your own ideas about yourself.

Never have I once identified myself as white.

I like myself. I think I'm cool. But I think when you're in a band you take on a role within the band, and I think people over the course of years can identify those roles as almost being bigger than just the individual. I don't know. It's kind of hard to talk about.

I don't have time to worry about who I admire or who I identify with.

I think everybody can identify, you know, with this sort of struggle to decide for yourself who you are, you know, and what your place in life is.

I'm black and white, so either, sometimes, you're not considered by the breakdown of the script: you're not 'black enough' for this role. Or you're not 'white enough' for this role. Or, like, looking up to people, who do I identify with? And not seeing Barbies that maybe look like me.

A belt doesn't identify me.

I do identify myself as a black man before I identify myself as a gay man.

By giving your feelings a name, you're identifying how you feel.

Have I had experiences by other people identifying me as black and behaving towards me as black? Yes. Just for as long as maybe somebody who was born categorised as black? No.