Quotes About Confidence

The best decision I made at NYU was joining the Shakespeare ensemble. It literally led to everything I did after that. It gave me the kind of confidence I really needed.

I've chosen to be this way because that's how I feel comfortable with myself. That's how I am. It's about joining up the dots between how you look and how you feel inside, and I think that's what I've done, and I think people do it differently.

Now when I first heard EPMD's first joint 'You Gots to Chill' and later 'So Whatcha Sayin'?' I said, 'I can do this!'

I don't mind being the brunt of a joke, so long as it's a good one.

My chicken ain't no joke. I ain't scared to go up against the Colonel, tastewise.

I'm not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn't really bother me.

I've been burn when it comes to my hair that it ain't no joke.

I don't mind being the butt of the joke... It doesn't really bother me. I quite enjoy it.

I always joke that a makeup-free day is good for the pores.

I ain't apologizing for anything, especially if it's a joke.

Wearing heels is no joke.

A joke bombing on stage doesn't bother me, especially if it's intended to bomb.

I could always take a joke. I could always be the butt of the joke. I could always hand it out. That was just who I was.

I think anything is possible if the jokes are good.

I don't care what the haters and naysayers say. If they make jokes about me, I'll laugh because they'll probably be funny.

Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.

I'm very self-deprecating, so I'm not afraid to make jokes at my own expense, and I've just found that makes people a little more comfortable and can open the door for people to feel a little bit more understanding and accepting of where you're coming from.

I was a bit of a show-off at school. I told jokes a lot because I wanted to have friends.

It wasn't until I became more confident with myself and I put myself forward instead of the jokes; at first it was put the jokes out there and I'm just behind the jokes.

I'm a big guy, but I don't do 'I'm so fat that... ' jokes.

When I was 14, I thought I was the coolest kid in school because I told everyone the jokes in FHM.

Personally - and I don't mean to brag - my jokes have been falling flat for most of my life.

The jokes about how I look have actually made me stronger.

When I tell a joke, I don't think about who's listening to it. I tell the jokes I think are funny.