Quotes About Confidence

The only difference between an experienced knitter and new knitter is that the experienced knitter makes bigger mistakes faster. Be bold; there are no terrible consequences in knitting.

I think the kids in school that laughed at the clothes that we wore and the house that we lived in, and then my mother had to cut hair... I think that was a good motivator. Every time they laughed at me, they just built a fire, and there was only one way to put it out - to try and show 'em I was as good as they were.

The only time I don't get nervous is if I'm doing a home club in L.A. and I know all of my friends there because then I play to my friends. When I first started doing comedy, I hated it when my friends came; it made me more nervous. Now I just try to make them laugh.

'Jai Lava Kusa' is my best look onscreen.

I'm very self conscious in a bikini, and I would never get my tummy out onstage.

Just me onstage with a mike having an intimate relationship with the audience. I don't get nervous for that. I just get excited.

I have fun with my clothes onstage; it's not a concert you're seeing, it's a fashion show.

I was very insecure growing up, and even though I'm not that girl anymore, I think that the passion, that not feeling pretty and being insecure, is where my soul came from. And from early childhood, I let it free onstage.

I'm really fond of strength onstage and I'm not a small person. I'm 5'9'' and 190 lbs. - you can't really go on stage and be too shy.

What I learned is that acting is to a large extent about trying to stave off self-doubt long enough to be natural and real onstage.

I get nervous all the time. The only time I'm not nervous is onstage, which is weird.

Everything that I hate about myself goes away when I was onstage.

I want to be able to deliver the kind of show that I want - to go onstage with my chin held up.

Half the time, when I first run onstage, I can't look directly at the audience just because of self-consciousness. It's human nature. Sometimes you feel like the man, and sometimes you don't. But sometimes that self-conscious energy is good for the show, it draws people in more.

But even so, I still get nervous before I go onstage.

Onstage, I was never the ingenue.

I thought I was going to be a lot more freaked out by being naked onstage. I think on film I would have been more freaked out, because film is less forgiving. But onstage it's lit so beautifully. It would make my mother look good.

Onstage I have a natural chutzpa that audiences like. I'm out there.

If I was going onstage, of course I would talk about it. How could I not?

People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.

I really liked drama and being in plays, so when I was playing a character onstage and I could act like somebody else, then I wasn't scared or nervous, but I didn't like meeting new people when I had to be myself. That was scary.

When I get onstage, I automatically feel beautiful.

I feel so much at home onstage and so comfortable in my body.

I celebrate masculinity when I'm onstage.