Quotes About Confidence

I took a break from theater after 'The Cripple of Inishmaan' to make some money, to be honest, and also to feel more confident in front of a camera, and before long it was two years since I'd been acting onstage and I found that I really missed it.

I talk to people now, and they thought I was so confident. I was doing all this awesome stuff onstage, and they didn't realize I was going through so much loneliness and hurt backstage. It was like high school.

When I directed my first short - 'American Virgin' - I had no idea if I could actually do it. Like, I might just get onto set, have everyone look at me and just completely freeze and have no idea what to do. But pretty much the opposite of that happened. I was like a fish diving into the sea.

When we walk onto that stage I'm not feeling like I'm ruled by any other band.

The main thing going through my head when I step out onto any show is: 'Don't mess it up, Emma, don't mess it up.'

By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for improvement - and secure enough to be open about them.

No one got anywhere by being too scared to open their mouth in case nobody laughed.

When a woman gets dressed up to go out at night, she wants to give 50% away, and hold the rest back. If you're an open book, there's no allure.

In general, I just try to make the people that I'm shooting feel like they are in good hands. I'm open-minded, and I invite them to be open-minded to the process. I'm direct and curious.

I have the armour of self-worth that comes from having open-minded parents who felt there was nothing wrong with me.

As an actor, I've grown considerably. It's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic scene and dancing on stage in front of a live audience. I've really opened up a lot.

I never doubted myself when I opened my first restaurant. You've got to give 100% of yourself until you know you've done it. But it was still a struggle.

Any beginning is difficult, but when you're opening the newspaper every day, and it's all about how bad you are, sometimes even you begin to believe that.

Everybody's opening up their own lane and it just makes you feel O.K. to showcase what you've got.

When you're opening for someone, there's no pressure.

There's no way in the world I would have thought about opening New York Fashion Week or walking in London.

In making the show we have come to realise that you can get away with almost anything just by being confident and wearing a smile. It's very eye opening.

I openly say I've had my lips done, I've been getting my lips done for years now.

I think it helps in any comedy room for a woman to have very strong, respected convictions, because then it opens the door up a little bit for other women to have that.

An eyelash curler changes your entire face. It opens your eyes up.

Ballet opens up the chest and the arms and elongates the body, so you carry yourself straighter. That's so important for a model. But also every woman.

Saying, 'I'll find the answer for you,' opens the door for people to still come to me with questions. Even if I don't have an immediate answer, I build trust by finding the answer.

I own and operate a ferocious ego.

I don't operate on fear, and I don't let fear control me.