self-awareness Quotes

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.

There is a need for aloneness, which I don't think most people realise for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like sort of a chunk of you.

I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don't know who or what, maybe myself.