Quotes About Confidence

I get extremely nervous before performances. I pray and try to look at it as, 'I'll go out there and have fun,' but it's very nerve-wracking for me. I don't think that will ever change.

In acting class, I used to hide in the corner and pray the teacher wouldn't call on me.

I used to pray every night: 'Please let me look all right from the front.' I didn't care about real life, but I wanted to look good for theatre audiences - I worried about having a funny nose.

I always pray before the game. I have a big-time belief in that. It just gives me that extra boost, the confidence, the faith that I'm going to play and be safe.

God doesn't love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face. You know, I prayed about it a long, long, long, long, long time, because there again, I wouldn't want to do anything that I felt was going to be offensive to God.

I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.

I don't preach body positivity - I'm just okay with the body I'm in and say, 'I love me, so you should love you.'

I'm a preacher's kid, I'm big-boned, I have giant feet, and I've always been able to run fast, and so I had this sense of, 'I can't fail. I'm invincible. I'm made of green juice and concrete; nothing's gonna happen to me.'

I'm not some kind of preacher saying 'You have to have natural hair,' but for me it's easier.

Life is too precious to worry about what other people are saying or what they think.

My job is to be OK without a precise plan.

We feel much happier and more secure when we think we know precisely what to do, no matter what happens, then when we have lost our way and do not know where to turn.

Muhammad Ali inside the ring and Muhammad Ali outside the ring were totally different men; his abrasive, magnetic daring and infectious self-love outside the ring galvanized the world and distracted many from his sniper's precision. He was a heavyweight with the fluttering gracefulness of a middleweight.

I was a precocious child. Everyone called me sassy.

It sounds precocious, but I knew that I had to listen to my own inner voice and ignore what everyone else was saying, even my mum.

When you work and earn money as a child, you need to be confident, but it can make you a bit precocious, and I think I was a bit of a pain for a while when I was young.

I don't like to predict the fights. People can do that. They can predict my fights, but I never do that.

My faith in the economic potential of the low carbon economy is not an untested prediction.

Thinking things like, 'I will never get hired for this job,' or 'Nobody ever listens to me,' can alter your behavior in a way that makes those predictions come true.

I don't make predictions. I know what I can do, and I try not to think too far ahead.

I tell people all the time I don't make predictions.

This may sound conceited, but the more predominant the role, the more comfortable I am on set.

I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.

I prefer musicals, because I am the best dancer who ever lived. The best plies, the best sashays, and by far the best-smelling Capezios.