Quotes About Confidence

There's a certain amount of self-aggrandising with actors, and I'm terribly shy of that.

I wouldn't call myself a dancer. I would never even dance in a club - I can't move my feet! I'm terribly shy about moving. I feel comfortable in my body, but dancing is like learning another language.

There is nothing terribly wrong with my face, even if some of its parts aren't very inspiring.

The smartest people I know have that extra edge. The risk is always there that you'll look terribly undignified and slobbering, and inside I cringe about that, but I should be more aggressive.

I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.

I was terribly shy, but I was always in harmony when I was dancing.

When you're the best, and you know you're the best, and your contemporaries know you're the best, that's a terrific edge.

I hated painting, and I quit right after high school because I was continually told how terrific I was... it made me feel shaky.

At the moment we're trying to keep what we've learnt. Because we learnt a terrific amount with 'Deep Purple In Rock,' it took six months to make that album: we think it paid off, really. I can honestly say that it's the first album we've been 100 percent satisfied with; it gave us a hell of a lot of confidence.

When people come to me and tell me I was terrific in this or that, I do not want to fall flat on my face the next time. But, tough, I have fallen flat before. You just get up and dust yourself off.

I'm very pleased with the job President Bush is doing and he's off to a terrific start.

There are some guys I know for a fact, like Louis C.K., who always talk about how not-great of an actor he is, and he's terrific on his show. But I know Louis would play a fantastic dramatic role in something, too. He just needs somebody to grab him and say, 'Come in here and do this.'

I could say now at 66, yeah, I was a fabulous dancer. I was really terrific, you know. But I was always present. I was present. I was supposed to be where I was supposed to be at the time I was supposed to be.

You can't convince someone else - whether it's a potential employer, a loan officer at the car dealership, or someone you've been crushing on - that you're amazing and terrific if you don't actually think you are.

Mostly, I think of myself as having great common sense. I've always been proud of that. Was I a terrific student? Absolutely not. But put me in a roomful of people, and I don't think I'm ever going to embarrass myself.

When you play good and people say that you have been terrific and you have been playing good football, that's something that stays and builds you and your confidence.

Every time I go to work, I feel like it's the first time; I feel terrified and excited and exhilarated and like a deer in the headlights. I think: how do I do this? And then it just happens. Like riding a bike, you know?

A cardio-funk class - I should have at least taken one of those. But it's always terrified me. I'm never one to be a dancer on the dance floor, even at a bar or a club.

You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.

I still get terrified if I have to talk in front of a group of people. By having a character to play, it makes it safer.

I was terrified of being on stage, and I had to work very hard at a craft to get past that.

If I have to speak in public, I am terrified.

People are really terrified of me. I don't know why, I'm very nice, but people are very intimidated by me.

I'm terrified by speaking in front of people!