Quotes About Introspection

People tend to scare you pointing out your shortfalls. If you voluntarily admit your faults, then people won't have anything to point out.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

In most cases, no one asks what I think, and so for me to be ready to volunteer it unprompted, I have to feel very ready to accept whatever is coming next.

I was sucked into this vortex of a very conservative upbringing.

You cannot be seeking yourself when you're making money.

I'm not somebody who seeks attention.

People seem to know more about me than I do.

It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.

I very seldom read back into what I've written.

I seldom look at myself to avoid any self-criticism.

There are times I turn off my Wi-Fi, and I'm selective about what I want to share with the world now.

I have always been selective about people who enter my life.

You have to find out who you are aside from what the media say you are. If you've become reliant on them for kind of a sense of self, then you're really screwed.

To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.

If your sense of self is destabilised, to imagine being another becomes pretty easy.

A lot of times when you're acting, you're no longer talking and listening; you're going at it for your own self.

I don't have an ego that makes me believe the world revolves around me. I am not self-absorbed.

I try not to get too self-absorbed.

You know, you do have a self-awareness as an actor.

Is it possible to have negative self-awareness?

Self-awareness is something that we actually actively avoid.

To me, great writing - and when you can really make something wonderful out of it as an actor - is when your character has a sense of self-awareness. It doesn't necessarily have to arc. It doesn't have to grow.

We all get self-centered.

We are all very individual. You have to find out what you can do best, and be self-conscious about that.