Quotes About Introspection

No one is perfect. I would never claim to be that person.

I realized that I love the quiet bits in most superhero films.

I think I have a superior brain and an inferior stature, if you really want to get brutal about it.

A lot of stand-up comedians are actually very insecure, and they come on slightly battling the audience. They want to be the superior person in the room, sneering at the world. That can be very funny. But to me, what's more interesting is that the world is on my shoulders, and it's pushing me down.

There are so many reasons why, for me, writing is superior to acting. One of them is anonymity. Writers can live relatively normal lives.

A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.

I look back upon my Liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself for some superiority I could not logically describe.

Thinking about the sins of others give us a feeling of moral superiority. But thinking about our own sins is a humbling experience, which is generally much less fun.

My personality is based on an anonymity and failure. Failure and anonymity, those are my strengths - superiority from below.

I have a superiority complex I need to get rid of.

I've got a bulletin for you, folks. I am no superman. I realize that now, but I didn't always.

Looking at 'Batman v Superman' - which I can watch objectively, since I'm in it for all of two seconds - I see different layers. It is not preachy, and represents the gray we live in as human beings.

I have few friends. I can count them on one hand. I go by myself to the cleaners and the supermarket and I live alone with my dogs.

I still get a few dirty looks over the racks in the supermarket, but nobody kicks me in the shins on Water Street. I've made sort of a point, apart from being a social dud, not to fraternize with the people I write about.

People never used to look at me twice. That was my superpower: When I met someone, I could decide whether to care about them based on whether they cared about me.

I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.

I've heard myself referred to as a quiet superstar, and I don't quite know what that means.

When you go to prison, you don't feel like a superstar. It really humbles you as a person.

Superstition's not for me. And I'm not much for medicine either. I know my mind and my body better than anyone else.

It's a good thing to imagine yourself doing something you think you can't. I do that every day because, basically, if I had it my way, I'd just stay home and think about what I'm having for supper.

It is so powerful when we can leave behind our ordinary identities, no longer think of ourselves primarily as a conductor, or writer, or salesclerk, and go to a supportive environment to deeply immerse in meditation practice.

I suppose I sometimes used to act like I wasn't a human being... Sometimes I look back at myself and remember things I used to say, or my hairstyle, and I cringe.

I am a loner, I suppose.

It was said of me recently that I suffered from an Obsessional Privacy. I can only suppose it must be true.