Quotes About Awareness

Since I started acting, I've always been aware of the sort of 'beastly entity' that is America and Hollywood, and semi-consciously, I devised a kind of route in - I'd seen a lot of people try and fail.

Environmentalism has failed.

I have been shocked at some senior actors who made lewd comments on my body. They think it is normal, and in fact, I thought it was normal. But, much later, I failed to see how that is a normal thing.

I'm pretty lowbrow. It's a failing.

There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.

Know what to do if you feel faint or dizzy, especially if you might fall and hit your head.

My mind is led astray by every faint rustle.

I've spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what's going on so that they have a chance of getting a fair shake from the connected and the powerful.

I have always been kind of really good at faking the sick voice, and I never really realized it because I would never use that power for evil.

I heard the Abbey Lincoln song 'The World is Falling Down,' and it just resonated with me so deeply.

You need to be able to communicate what you feel - good or bad. But when I feel things are falling on deaf ears, I take a step back.

Energy conservation is a responsibility that falls on every country and individual.

As a player, sometimes you expect something to happen every time the ball is in the box. Every time somebody falls down, you get nervous because you have to watch your back because anything can happen.

I conduct all my nighttime activities under the assumption that my wife is awake, that she never falls asleep.

You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.

False confidence is false confidence.

We're not aware of fame itself, we're not that kind of band.

I was conscious of my father's fame from the time I was 6.

How can you build something for someone else if you don't have enough familiarity with them to imagine the world through their eyes?

The more you play against teams and defenders, the more you get to know them. You know if they are more nervous; you know, on the pitch, people are different. I try to adapt to their character.

Everybody knows everything about all the teams now.

When I see somebody being mistreated, my eyes tear up and I want to stop it. And I believe that the best thing I can do is to write about it, because if I insert myself into the equation it doesn't really do much good, but if I write about it I think it could do more good.

I benched up to 500 pounds one day and decided that was enough because I knew the risk of a pec tear or a shoulder injury would be catastrophic to my bodybuilding career.

I think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are always known to be well mannered and cold but we are not cold - we don't interfere in your situation. If we are heartbroken, we don't scream in your face with tears - we go home and cry on our own.