Quotes About Self-awareness

Not taking yourself too seriously, that's the important thing.

One of the most important things for an actor is to know who you are.

I did do Broadway for a little less than a year and realized quickly I don't have a passion for it and, more importantly, I don't have a talent in it.

Sometimes I do everything and then there are times when I don't want to do anything at all.Most importantly , I don't do anything that I don't want to do.

I always knew I was an artist, and even more importantly, a star.

Everyone must correct his own self; this is something more difficult to cope with, but it is not impossible.

The big thing for me is no longer is trying to impress people around me.

The guy who started on third base and gets home and acts like he hit a homer - that guy doesn't impress me.

Am I impressed by myself? Nah, not really.

I've been so impressed by the material that's been sent to me, but I don't think that's because it's me.

I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.

Can I do an impression of me? I don't think I can. It would be the most self-confronting thing you could ever do.

I don't want to give a false impression of confidence where I don't have it.

I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.

I think I do a lot of things averagely. So I have to combine them. It looks impressive but actually I don't think I excel at any of them.

I was never that good on stage with live improv. I was much better on film or writing something and then thinking about it. I was too in my head when I was on stage.

I was having a really-early-onset midlife crisis, and then something clicked in an improv class, and I knew.

I only focus on myself. I want to improve myself.

I'm a person, when something's not going right, I'm looking at myself and seeing how I can improve and what I can do better.

I am always analysing myself; I am always critical of myself and always trying to improve.

I know a lot of actors don't watch themselves on TV, but I think it's good to see how else you can improve.

I can improve it a little bit. But it's my head, it's the way I am. So at the end of the day, I will be who I am and I will win how much I can win.

In my religion it's actually better to know you're doing wrong and try to improve that wrong than to think philosophically that what you're doing is right and in fact it is wrong.

It is always good to self-analyse and be self-critical. That is how I've got through so far and improved.