Karl Pilkington Quotes

Connecting to the feelings in your body brings you back into present-moment awareness.

I didn't know that anything was wrong with me until the media got involved in my life.

Perhaps the better word is emotional yes, I am an emotional man.

It's hard for me to talk about Dom right now because I am Dom right now. So it's a really strange exercise to try to reflect on something that I am at the moment. But I guarantee you that when I'm done with the movie and you ask me that question, I'll be able to give you something insightful.

For years I had lived in my body half-consciously, ignoring it mostly, dismissing its agendas wherever I could, and forever pressing it into the service of mental conceptions that resulted, almost as a by-product, sometimes in its pleasuring and sometimes in its abuse.

That's me, I'm emotional.

If I were immersed in constant melancholy, I would not be who I am.

I'm a pretty emotional gal.

Am I an anxious guy? I think I have been called upon as an actor a lot to access emotions like that. But I don't really think I am a big worrier. I don't see myself like that. But I guess other people do. Which is maybe worrying in itself.

I am emotional, but that's not a negative.

I'm a person, and like any person, I have feelings.

My work is a self-portrait of my mind, a prism of my convictions.

I think we're all a little bit caught up in the drama inside our own heads.

There was a lot of aggression in me. It comes from my Bihari roots, I guess.

There is no substitute for learning to live in our bodies.

But my favorite part in my body are my dark circles. They define me. They reveal my melancholy.

Body adornments show that we're aware of our bodies and expect others to be aware as well.

My primary goal is really to get people to open up and when they feel themselves contracting and collapsing to reduce that, and to know when that happens, "Oh, something's going on that's making me feel this way, and if I force my body open a bit, I will feel less powerless."

I was raised in a household where I read Nietzsche and Dostoyevsky and Kant, and I was never taught that my mind was feminine. I'm aware that my body is.

But before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds.

I keep track of my body by how my jeans fit—and how I feel.

Our bodies demand our attention; our bodies demand that we actually pay attention to what is going on with our lives.

I knew you'd decide to be all right again.

It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.

How are you managing? And don't say you're fine." It's true. Whatever the opposite of fine is, that's what I am.