Quotes About Self-awareness

I have to learn to ignore my feelings. Not just the feeling of hunger and the feeling of full, but the feeling of embarrassment, too. I have to remember that this is only weird if I make it weird.

When I was younger, it was very easy to ignore me because I was like some crazy hippie kid. But as I've gotten older, and I'm more gray and more lines on my face, it has given me a lot more gravitas.

I battle with things like depression in my life, I battle with things like anxiety, I battle with things like attention deficit disorder, and I ignored them all.

You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials.

I was ill, and everyone could see it but me.

The trouble when you're doing something illegal is that you know what you're doing. You're lying to your parents, you're lying to your kids. The only person you can't lie to is yourself.

I found out that I was illegal when I was 16. I'm gay. I'm Filipino.

No, I consider myself computer illiterate.

Sometimes, I get afraid it has defined me, that sense of grief, loss and illness. But actually, it is about allowing myself to take hold and say: 'This is part of who I am, but not only who I am.'

So much illness is self-induced - which I can't stand. And I'm not a good nursemaid. Don't call me if you're ill.

I'm under no illusion that there are things about me that I'd like to change. I just accept who I am, and I'm proud of it.

We're all living in some state of illusion, even if modestly.

I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget my debt to them.

My work is not great, but it's respectable. I have no false illusions.

I have no illusions of being the big box office draw. But I would like to have some choices.

I know very well the difference between my image and who I am.

I've never tried to manipulate my image.

Trying to live the image of the life which you have in your head... it's really hard not to do that, but I do think maybe it's cheating.

In a way, you kind of get caught up in whatever image of yourself you think is out there.

I think it's somebody else's job to decide what my image is.

I always think I look like the Elephant Man - I can't get used to my own image.

Well, I don't know what image people have of me.

If you have created an image of yourself at 13 and it is still with you at 17, it needs to be dropped.

Some people are really good at maneuvering their careers and images and I'm not one of those people.