Quotes About Awareness

You can always land on your feet if you know where the ground is.

If you're entering a room for the first time, do it the way you would in life - look around; see how they have the furniture arranged. If your character is meeting another character for the first time, meet them the way you would in life.

For those looking at me, meeting me for the first time, it is the body they see. I am labelled as disabled.

The only moment I become aware of being the only woman in a meeting is when actresses are being discussed. If someone's critical of how a woman looks, they turn to me and apologize.

I have a family member who was in the foster system briefly, and so I've kind of grown up knowing about it myself.

I have family members that are bipolar.

When you're in your 40s, you become more conscious of life being of limited duration and that you need to create memories and go on little adventures from time to time.

If you don't have your experiences in the moment, if you gloss them over with jokes or zoom past them, you end up with curiously dispassionate memories.

When I decided to make 'Blackface,' a short film about Black Pete, I had little knowledge of the giant cesspool of hate I was about to dive into. I didn't realize how popular and passionate many white Dutch are about a figure that they connect to fond memories from their childhood.

The uncluttered life is the key to a good memory.

White Americans have a short memory.

I've got a terrible memory; it's probably because I'm always concentrating on what I'm doing now.

I am a people watcher and I have a very good memory.

I have a chemical imbalance that, in its most extreme state, will lead me to a mental hospital.

You don't know what mental telepathy exists from the human to the animal.

Mental illnesses are so frightening and there's so much ignorance about them that I think it comforts people to think, 'Oh, well, it happens to these people because they deserve it.'

Mental health is something that's really important to me.

You have to be very careful about your mental health.

It's so important that we all speak up on mental health.

We should open the conversation of mental health and start discussing it in classrooms, and among each other. Especially in the black community - that's not something we talk about.

Mental health is something that I'm very interested in.

Mental health doesn't care what your name is or what you do for a living.

For me, because I'm a mental health advocate, I want everyone to be the healthiest they can be.

Anyone who commits an act of violence to themselves or others is worth consideration in the sense that there must be something that brought them to that point, whether it's a mental health issue or otherwise.