Quotes About Confidence

Dear Women of New York: You are superior.

Anorexia isn't about being fat, it's about having fat.

How gratifying it is to amuse. How easy it gets to toss off a witticism to ease any awkwardness, to sidestep any solemnity. When you amuse, it even seems, for the briefest possible moment that you are who you appear to be, so clever and confident and at ease.

when you do not seek or need external approval, you are at your most powerful.

I have nothing to lose and think that it's a positive thing that I am young and playing on a good level.

Show your true colors. Mine is yellow. — BIG BIRD

When you walk into a room, act as if you own the whole house, not just that room. Paste on a smile, even if it's fake, and never tug at your skirt or mess with your necklace

everything. She lives with a profound confidence that he holds the whole world (including her) in his hands.

One must do the outrageous with style. With élan. With complete conviction.

Ned said "Nancy Drew is the best girl detective in the whole world!" "Don't you believe him," Nancy said quickly. "I have solved some mysteries, I'll admit, and I enjoy it, but I'm sure there are many other girls who could do the same.

Nancy, you're a whiz, as I've often told you," her friend declared.

You have to have the kind of body that doesn't need a girdle in order to get to pose in one.

Never underestimate yourself

Guys won't admit it, but we're all obsessed with our biceps. I did three sets of ten reps, thirty-five pounds on each side. I knew I was pushing it, especially since we have practice this afternoon, but what the fuck. That was going to be my motto today. What the fuck.

I'm proud that today, at 43 years old, I've come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty.

I'm a hick," I recall saying to him. "No," Harrison answered. "You think you're less than you are. You're a smart hick." And then, "You have the eyes of a doe and the balls of a samurai.

Never let 'em see you ache"; that's what Mr. Mayer always said. Or was it ass; "Never let 'em see your ass"?

What was it I wanted to tell you? Was it the new T-shirt-ready saying I came up with: "There's no room for demons when you're self-possessed"?

Anyway, I suppose in part I'm telling this story now because I want all of you - and I do mean all - to know that I wasn't always a somewhat-overweight woman without an upper lip to her name who can occasionally be found sleeping behind her face and always thinking in her mouth.

There's no room for demons when you're self possessed.

I had so much lip gloss on you might have slid off and broken your own lips if you tried to kiss me.

Mania is, in effect, liquid confidence..when the tide comes in, it's all good. But when the tide goes out, the mood that cannot and should not be named comes over you and into you. Because to name it would be an act of summoning.

When we started filming, I tried to keep myself well under the radar so that the powers that be wouldn't notice that I hadn't lost the weight they'd asked me to. I only weighed 110 pounds to begin with, but I carried about half of them in my face. I think they may have put those buns on me so they might function as bookends, keeping my face right where it was, between my ears and no bigger.

Not that I'm a big fan of my face, but still- it is mine, whichever way you tilt it. I didn't like my face when I should have and now it's melted, I look back on that face fondly.