Quotes About Confidence

When I've known something is right, the actual doing of it is not scary. It's like being onstage or performing. After it and before it, there might be a lot of fear, but the act of it is never scary for me.

I think it's important for people to be themselves and express themselves through their makeup or their hair or their perfume or whatever it may be.

The gold iridescent 'Naked' outfit is perhaps not my finest moment.

I've just begun to dare to think I perhaps am a bit of an artist.

Every time I put on high heels, I think: 'Well, I'll fall over today.' Almost always, I don't. Almost. But all high-heel-wearing women live in constant peril.

It's pretty tough to intimidate me. And that's probably at my own peril sometimes.

I am extremely bullish in the longer period.

I am an actress, period.

All players have 'ordinary' periods in their career and it's hard to explain why. So at these times, its all about self belief, hard work and hopefully you get the break and your form returns.

There are periods when you feel really good. You feel the ball is bigger. The court is larger. You feel like you can't miss. And then there are periods when you feel, 'OK, I'm not feeling great.' But I still need to try to find a way to win.

I go through periods where I don't really care what I look like, because I feel more focused on the work that I'm doing, and I don't want to think about it. And then sometimes it feels like the biggest part of my day is getting dressed.

I go through periods where I feel very confident about stuff but other periods that are insecure... I find doing different stuff removes the responsibility of focussing on one thing.

I think Im addicted to periods of doubt and low confidence. I think you should worry if you dont have them because then youre not trying hard enough.

One of the main reasons I started writing these one-man shows was that this really evil casting director once said to me, 'you're peripheral and you'll always be peripheral. You'll come in with the zingers and have very little to do, so just accept that and take the money.'

I'm not pert and perky anymore - when you're over 60, it's 'feisty.'

I don't feel insecure at all. There's nothing permanent here. One has to make the most of his/her talent.

Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

You have to actually believe in your capacity to change for habits to permanently change.

I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.

The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.

Confidence comes in going on personal journeys in a public arena and feeling as though you have a right to do that. You have to give yourself permission to discover what you need to discover and not worry about how pretty the journey is. If you're aware of the pretty, you're not going to dig into the mess.

My whole life I have sort of done my own thing. I rarely ask permission; I sometimes ask forgiveness.

Permit me to be immodest, but I did something for this country.

I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.