Quotes About Self-awareness

Fame is a by-product which you have to deal with in a sensible way. To believe that it is anything more significant than that is deeply self-deceptive.

My parents found this paper from my high school theater class where you had to write down what you wanted in a significant other. At the bottom, it said, 'No athletes, because they're arrogant.'

In the beginning, I got different kind of roles, and then I realised it's great to be that way. And that thought is always there before signing a film.

I'm not a signing or dancing man.

I've had every advantage in the world, despite the 18 years of silence which were nobody's fault but mine.

To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy.

To the extent that someone goes out to criticize another woman about hair, makeup, silliness like that - unless you're talking about a makeup artist or something, really stop and think about what you're doing and why you're doing it.

I don't want to take myself too seriously, thinking that I'm always having to be this cathartic, intense and deep person, because I certainly enjoy silliness.

Comedy came early. I knew when I was a kid that I was silly, and I knew that I liked people who were funny, but I don't think I knew I was funny. I didn't really think about it.

I would look a little silly playing Casanova now.

A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.

Things I say are sometimes silly.

I know it's silly, but I still think I'm 28.

People who know me would not say that, at my core, I'm silly.

I knew, as silly as it sounds, that I was never going to be the best player on any team.

If you write, write about what you do and who you are, and you can't be wrong. Don't lie about anything. You are very similar to everybody else in the world. You love, you hate, you have friends, you have enemies. Be who you are.

Thinking you're immortal is weirdly similar to being immortal.

Sometimes it's hard to play someone so similar to you, because you can muddy the character. Often, it's easier to play someone further away from you, because it's clearer who they are.

I feel I am the reincarnation of Duryodhan. There are lots of similarities between me and him.

Don't try to kid yourself that your game is about pace if it isn't. If you're a big guy like me you need to look at how similarly built players use that physical presence to influence a game. Accept that your build may have some limitations - but plenty of plus points too.

I am who I am. I am not very complicated. I am simple and an introvert.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

I'm not a philosopher, I'm just a simple boy from East Ham.

My running was very simple; it was out of myself.