Marcus Brigstocke Quotes

I don't go around saturated in guilt or anything like that. I do worry about things quite a lot, but I don't feel as though I am a bad person.

There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.

I think I see myself differently than most people see me.

You can't hate/love others without loving/hating yourself first.

I do not consider myself a teddybear. Just to be clear, I don't feel sorry for myself.

[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.

The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.

Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.

I think it's harder to forgive ourselves for mistakes that we made because we keep dwelling on it. We want to know how it affects other people, if they liked us for it, if they didn't like us. I think we stress over it, we replay it in our mind. It becomes an old tape that years later we continue to play it in our mind.

Everything you think about yourself, everything you believe about yourself, is because you learned it.

I think the average person thinks I'm a nut and I deserve whatever happens to me.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

When somebody says something bad about you, they feel bad about themselves in some way.

Any description of a person that comes from the outside is very hard to deal with. People don't like being summarised. It's nice to receive a compliment, but it makes me feel a bit uncomfortable.

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

I'm very self-critical.

Normally I sit there in the films really hating watching myself. Loving watching the films, hating watching myself.

I hate the past - especially my own past.

Guilt is a weird thing to me. I don't have a lot of it.

To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.

I am not racked with self-loathing. Some issues of guilt and shame, but I'm a pretty good guy.

I know who Jack Whittaker is. And some days I don't like who I am.

The third person allows characters to really attack themselves. We all do this - attack ourselves - every hour of our lives.

Is it possible to have negative self-awareness?