Quotes About Confidence

I don't know if I'd ever sing a whole album because I don't know if I'd want to hear my voice for more than three or four songs.

Growing up I was told, 'Stop acting like a girl. Don't stand like that, don't act like that, deepen your voice.' But for me, it came naturally.

I am who I am. I have a low voice, and I look like somebody's dad or boss or a police chief, and those roles come my way.

I didn't have to express myself to anybody; I would just sing. And most of the times, when I initially used to sing, I used to get scared of my own voice.

I fell in love with my voice. I had something inside of me that was like, 'I like this.'

I was encouraged to use my voice and explore my passions outside of the sport. And when I did that, I was finally able to realize my true self-worth. I was more than that of a gymnast.

When I was 6, I opened my mouth and didn't stop singing. I had a voice and wanted to use it.

My singing voice is awful.

I just wanted to show people - maybe I'm wrong - that I can still really sing. I can sing better than I ever have before. My intonation is way better, my timing, my phrasing - there's a lot more expression; I feel it's a more lived-in, soulful voice.

I didn't enter Miss S.A. because I thought I was the most beautiful woman in S.A., I entered because it's one of the few platforms that give women the ability to lead and I knew I had a powerful voice and message to send out.

In my opinion, anybody can sing. If they have a voice, they must sing.

I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.

Don't hole up in your apartment and just write jokes, be a real human being and develop your own voice. Then you will be undeniable.

We're told that to be successful girls, we have to be small and quiet. Yet to be successful humans, we have to become big and have a voice. There's an inherent contradiction.

I never really sang for anyone, apart from in the shower or with my best friend. I was shy. I didn't want to take voice lessons. I knew I could sing, but I just didn't tell anyone.

I enjoy voicing even though I am not a voice-over artist.

I was going to be the next big voice-over thing, of course, in my mind. I didn't.

Getting into the voice-over booth, there are no cameras and no inhibitions.

But with voice-over on a reality TV show, I think I'm pretty up there, maybe one of the best. It's a confidence boost, which helps my stand-up because I'll try more interesting stuff.

I felt voiceless for so long, I wasn't ever able to say what I felt out loud. I didn't know how to say it. Posting online presented itself as a comfortable medium. I could say what I wanted to say in a way I still felt comfortable. Whenever, however I wanted to.

I think voiceover is an adjunct that actors have picked up that have given us some security.

I'm not good at anything! I can do, like, two voices.

When you finish a series like 'Ugly Betty,' there are so many voices around you telling you what you should be doing next and what would be good for your future, sometimes you can't hear yourself. I've gotten pretty good at tuning everyone else out. Now it's just me; what pleases me creatively.

What's happened in my career has been about knowing myself and realizing my flaws are my strengths, and to embrace them; to access what I'm really good at, and what I'm not so good at; and tune out the voices that get inside your head and make you think you can't do something.