Quotes About Introspection

Pressure can be good. It helps you to see what you're all about.

I put a lot of pressure on myself, more than anyone else.

Too often, I have not been what I wanted to be; I've succumbed to pressures. Yes, I have. The things I've done that I liked, I've always done against advice.

I don't presume to think I'm great at anything.

I don't pretend to be perfect.

With prurient absorption and only minimal risk, we can pretend to be the subject of the lead article on the front page of the Style section of our local newspaper for as long as it takes to finish our morning coffee.

Sometimes it's funny for me to just pretend I'm a movie character, and think what would you do if this was a movie? Or, what would you do if you were one of your icons?

I'm definitely not proud of some of the stuff I did as a youth, but that's where my mind-frame was at one point in my life, and I can't pretend those things didn't happen. I'm not glorifying them, I'm trying to make them into art.

Once I saw that we were not the ultimate arbiters of divine truth but flawed human beings, I couldn't pretend otherwise.

It's not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to dress up in other people's costumes and pretending to be people that they're not, and you think, after the years go by, well, what on earth was all that about?

I have a dread of sounding pretentious and try not to talk too much about what I do.

I must have been a really pretentious little girl.

'Melancholy' is prettier than 'depression'; it connotes a kind of nocturnal grace. Makes one feel more innocently beleaguered.

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.

As a human, I'd say I'm pretty intermediate.

I think I'm pretty misunderstoood.

I'm pretty hard on myself in general.

I'm not only my films, but I'm pretty much my films.

You have to know me first to think I'm pretty.

I don't have to be a pretty face. I've done that, but now it's important and liberating to be on the other side of the lens. I don't like to be the center of attention anymore.

If you think I'm just another pretty face, read my Facebook updates, read my articles, read the interviews I've done and judge for yourself.

Routines, or lack thereof, are a pretty good way to get to know someone.

I have a pretty good idea of what I am not good at and have it front and centre of my consciousness every minute I am doing it.

I do love my country. I don't think I'm particularly a good American. I don't know what makes a good American. Other than somebody who - I like people who let other people alone. I think that's a pretty good American. And I keep my hands to myself. So I'm an OK American.