Quotes About Confidence

I didn't want to skate for someone else or for certain marks.

I know roughly when I skate a good program where the score should end up.

When I go to competitions, I don't have so much confidence that I don't worry or get nervous about the other skaters doing well.

I have always believed that I am an amazing skater regardless of what the results say, and I think that determination and confidence has kept me in the game so long.

I have always believed that I've been an amazing skater regardless of what the results say.

I'm not really good on skates. But dance shoes I can dance in!

When I found skating, it was something that was individual, and it was something that I could focus on being my best. And I loved the whole practice, and I also loved performing. It was probably the first time I felt really good about myself and that I was good at something, because I always liked being athletic.

Ever since I was a little kid, I loved being the centre of attention. I think it's part of the reason why I loved skating. You're literally in a fishbowl. You're in the middle of the ice by yourself, and the world is watching.

For ice skating, you really have to block out your fears and throw yourself into it - there must be trust in your partner and a trust that you will be safe.

After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried.

I'll always cringe remembering those little embarrassing moments when I said something dumb on a conference call, when my inexperience poked through, when I should have been more solicitous of the judgment of those around me. They're a reminder that it's not mutually exclusive to be confident and humble, to be skeptical and eager to learn.

My mom had an audition for a commercial when I was about two and a half, and I ran in crying and interrupted her. They thought I was cute so they offered me a commercial role. My mom was skeptical and a bit nervous about the child actor thing, but I was extremely bossy and convinced them I wanted to try it.

I'm not a very skeptical person.

We have to make a bridge of confidence based on natural and elementary morality which corresponds to the natures of man and which would be respected by all men. I may be naive in this, but I think it is better to be naive than skeptical.

For myself, the way that I learned comedy was doing it live for four years, and only after doing sketch for four years did I feel confident enough to be like, 'Okay, I feel good about starting to put stuff on the Internet where it lives forever.' As opposed to one time at a college sketch show where it bombs and we never speak of it again.

I never felt that I was a leading-man type in high school. I was always the goofy guy who was getting attention from girls who could make them laugh by doing impersonations of, like, 'Saturday Night Live' sketches... I was more James Stewart than James Bond.

I'd been writing sketches since high school, but 'Friends of the People' really taught me about structure - how to wait out a joke, how to stick with it for a while. It also made me more confident onstage as a performer.

When I work as an art director, I don't ask to see sketches from illustrators or photographers. I give them a basic idea, and then I say, 'Send it to me, it'll be fine' - I get out of the way.

I did sketches and had the best time of my life because people were laughing. I was not self-conscious, because they laughed when I wanted them to.

I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don't know what we're like.

I can ski backwards on one ski. And foldblinded!

When you back off, it's easier to do mistakes. For me it's better to ski fast.

It takes a lot of guts to jump. If people criticise, I would give them a set of skis and say, 'Do it yourself then.'

When I was 3 years old, I thought I was very good at skiing.