Quotes About Confidence

After 'Where the Wild Things Are,' I guess I felt more confident as a writer.

My improv definitely shows a different side of myself, which is more true to what my real humor is and what my real personality is, and I think - I guess 'wild' is a good word for it. I'm still sweet! But I won't let anyone walk all over me.

You need to gain the confidence that you're doing enough on film. You must resist the temptation to do too much.

I have learned that as an artist, I cannot succumb to the temptation to please others.

If I was left to my own devices, you would see about ten T-shirts in rotation with maybe a few nice pairs of jeans - but I also like to look good. I like feeling really well put together, I just don't have the aptitude and the knowledge to do that.

Here's another secret - I have really big feet. I'm a size ten, so every opportunity I get I buy myself shoes.

Everyone told me I could sing from about the age of ten. My mum was always telling me. But I was so shy, I didn't believe them. And the more that people told me, the more I went into the background and the less likely I was to sing.

When I was 15, and I just stepped on the A-team, I believed in myself, but I wasn't cocky in any way. I just wanted something so badly that I could tell people around me that were ten years older that they had to play and perform. I would still say that I had respect.

A self-evidently confident politician, Cameron still suffers from a curious hollowness. Ten years after he became Conservative leader, many people still question what he actually stands for or believes in.

As far as feeling like I need to prove myself or this or that, I don't feel that way anymore. I've been in this business for ten years, so I'm kind of past all that. I was there where, as a female, you always feel like you have to prove yourself; you have to outwork them. But all I worry about now is being prepared.

I'm a suit guy. I like wearing them for the sense of completion they offer. I like buying them for the sense of near permanence - the knowledge that whatever I buy will be part of my life for the next ten years or so.

After my first marriage ended in 2002 I went out with someone who made me feel very sexy. He was ten years younger than me and full of the joy of youth, which was wonderful after all the sadness of divorce, and a great confidence boost.

I've been on a very long, bumpy journey with my skin for over ten years.

I'm tenacious, I think - I know - and I do also have a quality where if you tell me I can't do something, if I know I can't do it I'm the first to raise my hand and say, 'I can't do that.' But there is a big Bronx, New York Jew in me that just says, 'Really? Really? You think I - yes, I can. I can do it. I can do it.'

Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself, and you begin to follow your own instincts - only then can you be successful. You become more satisfied, and when you are, other people will tend to be satisfied by what you do.

I'm like 6'2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.

People who tend to listen to my music have come back and said, 'Yo, this is my anthem. This is what I live by.'

Markets tend to shake you up before a bull run.

When doing my own makeup, I tend to keep it simple for the most part and stick to my go-to products.

People might not believe me if I say I get nervous, but I tend to practice constantly to show a balanced performance.

As an actor, you tend to have to be a bit of a people-pleaser, and I think that I just don't really care about that so much any more.

I have no qualms: no shame, no guilt, no embarrassment. I tend to act out a lot.

I tend to sleep in the nude... I'm a sensual-leaning woman. You have to use the word 'leaning' or it sounds like I'm boasting.

I tend to really duck down and make myself smaller than I already am.