Quotes About Self-awareness

A character, their ability or inability to laugh at themselves should always be a very, very conscious choice. It's a very big key to the nature of a human being.

I know that I'm inadequate, but I never thought that at seventeen. I thought I was doing the best I could. I thought I was being idealistic.

I usually don't read things written about me and I certainly don't read things if they are inappropriate.

Ageing is a blessing, and I feel every inch of 46.

I say I'm 5 feet 12 inches. I'm definitely 6 feet. In my heels, I'm 6 feet 3 inches.

You need not give others a chance to exploit you always. We should know what kind of exploitation is taking place. I cannot create an incident to say that women have been exploited in Malayalam film industry.

To just be all analytically inclined or heartbeat inclined, you are going to lose; you are not going to be the best version of yourself.

We're very, very flawed, myself included.

I am kind of an undecipherable commodity to a lot of people, including myself.

Besides, I'm fairly incompetent. I can't play that fast.

I have a feeling that about 90% of my life has been shaped by my voice, both as an embarrassment and as an advantage. There was always the terrible incongruity of this deep voice barreling out of this little body. Somewhere in the back of my mind I was aware that it was ludicrous, that it took on an importance that wasn't really there.

2014 wasn't my finest year. I was a bit inconsistent. I did too much training and got a bit overtired. It's the way I am, and sometimes I overtrain.

I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient!

Feeling sad or lonely isn't a bad thing. But those emotions increase the risk that you'll cross the line into self-pity.

If you start to dwell on your pain, the amount of pain will increase.

I am aware that I look good for my age. It's my genes. My dad looked incredibly young, so did my mother. And a younger husband helps. Scott is only 45. If he hadn't come along, I don't know what I'd have done.

Let me explain something: I'm not incredibly rich.

Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.

For myself, I am very small indeed in my own eyes.

I mean, I like to think of myself as being strong and independent, but I definitely wasn't like that at 14.

Growing up in the States, there's this part of me that's like, man, I'm Indian. Like, this is where I belong. And as soon as I got to India, and I had to go to the bathroom in some places, I was, like, 'Man - I am American.'

I look more Indian when I'm serious.

There's a big difference between race and culture. Because racially, I'm an Indian man. Culturally, not at all.

There are, broadly speaking, two kinds of workers in the world, the people who do all the work, and the people who think they do all the work. The latter class is generally the busiest, the former never have time to be busy.