Quotes About Self-worth

Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't.

I don't feel like material things validate me in any way.

I don't care what other people think. I don't think it matters.

Sometimes early in my career I thought what I did was who I was. As you mature, I've learned that is not the case. This is what I do, this is not who I am.

Don't treat your ideas like they're nothing, don't treat yourself like you're nothing, because you and your ideas are important and meaningful and have the potential to become so much more than you realize.

I've engineered my life so that my only value in this world is in my writing, which is really dangerous, because if it's a failure, then my life is meaningless.

You can't be all you are meant to be if you think you are better than others, and you can't be all you are meant to be if you think you are less than others, either.

If people don't like who you are, they aren't meant to be in your life.

How do you measure your value?

One of the things that has inspired me so much is knowing that I felt like I could never measure up.

My whole life, I've felt like I didn't quite measure up.

I try not to measure myself against other players.

Success isn't measured by the amount of people that watch you unless you allow it to be.

I am a girl, not a piece of meat.

Sometimes you feel like the only resource you have is your body or your looks.

I feel respected in the back of my mind.

I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.

I haven't found the experience of being hot very great. It usually means you are about to be overexposed. I would rather be respected.

I can only do what I do, and if people respond to it, great, and if they don't, that's what that is.

When I am retired I will know how good I was.

I return to the stage time and again to see if I am worth anything.

I'm not one to get bad reviews.

I wish I didn't have to validate myself by reading reviews.

I don't feel a need to prove anything or rewrite my legacy.