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Quotes About Confidence

Look, I don't care if anyone likes me when it comes to my work. But I can be massively insecure in other parts of my life.
~ Mary-Louise Parker
Back off, boys. You don't want to mess with an out-of-work secretary. We're real testy.
~ MaryJanice Davidson
I don't know how to work a room. It's a real skill.
~ Matthew McConaughey
My work speaks for itself.
~ Megan Alexander
I'm not a 'sexy' 'beautiful' woman. It takes a lot of work to make me look like a girl.
~ Megan Fox
You can be afraid in a press conference, nervous, sweaty, but you can't be afraid when you do your work because it doesn't work that way.
~ Meryl Streep
In my early work I didn't use much colour. I had no confidence about how I could do this.
~ Michael Craig-Martin
The reason my films work is because every actor on set is very secure. They're able to fly.
~ Mike Leigh
There are still people who don't like my work and that's okay with me.
~ Mike Royer
When I was young, I thought I was a god. Now, I just basically work on staying humble. My priorities changed. Just to be able to try to change them - that was frightening to me.
~ Mike Tyson
I've got wonderful people I get to work with, and I'm trying to focus on that, instead of worrying about, Aw, who doesn't want to work with me? You focus on the ones who do.
~ Molly Shannon
I've always been counted out. I've always had people believing I didn't belong. I think that has made me work a little harder.
~ Morgan Ensberg
I never read reviews at all. I'm proud of the work I did.
~ Nicole Kidman
I have body hang-ups - but I work the best of what I've got.
~ Nikki Sanderson
I do wear makeup when I work out. I am one of those people. It sounds stupid, but I can't really get motivated if I don't have a mirror and I'm not staring at myself because I need to look at myself.
~ Nina Agdal
I have a flat tummy, but I'm not rock hard. If I'm going to be in a bikini, I'll train more and skip desserts for a couple of weeks. But usually, I work out to feel good.
~ Nina Dobrev
If I dress like a schlump, I think like a schlump and I work like a schlump.
~ Nina Totenberg
I like the chance to work on material. Sometimes it helps to not be going into a room cold and to know people.
~ Patrick J. Adams
You can't work on that scale without trust. I learned that from working with Robert Mapplethorpe.
~ Patti Smith
Don't ask permission. If it does not work, you can apologize later.
~ Paulo Coelho
Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.
~ PJ Harvey
What I have learned in my life and work is that the more I am able to be myself, the more it enables other people to be themselves.
~ Oprah Winfrey
If you are not feeling good about yourself, then you work out. But you do it for you.
~ Rachel Bilson
I envy the sensibility in Europe, appreciating beauty in women as they age. I'm going to go that way. I might dye my gray hair for a bit, but beyond that the buck stops. I'm not having any work done.
~ Rachel Bilson