Quotes About Self-worth

If you think you can sing, you can sing; that's all that matters. So I'm always singing around my guys, around the team, during warm-ups, because I think people need to hear this voice. I think they deserve it.

I deserve to do quality work.

I have a career, and I deserve respect.

If I choose to be part of stupid films, I don't deserve to call myself an actress.

I don't want that title to come to my hands and be like, 'nah, I don't feel like it was deserved or it wasn't earned or whatever' - not saying that any of my accolades weren't, but I want it to be special. I want it to be super special and just super dope, and even if it's not special to everybody else, at least it is to me.

If I did meet somebody, I would only ever make room for someone that loved me how I deserved to be loved. Until then... I've got my shoes, I've got my album, my dog.

I think everyone deserves to look better and to look good.

I don't think anybody deserves to be defined totally by his enemies.

I'm not going to compromise and settle for what I feel is less than I deserve or less than anyone deserves.

We are all deserving of love.

There's so much pressure for actresses to constantly work or constantly be desired in terms of a value.

Let's face it - no matter how independent you are, you still have this nagging need to be desired.

If you're desperate enough for attention, any attention will make you feel better.

There's always somebody older, richer, more desperate than you.

I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.

I would love to work with everyone, but I am not desperate. Things will happen eventually.

I ask women to check the feelings they have about themselves before they do something. If you're doing it out of a sense of desperation and need, don't do it.

I despised trying to lose weight, and I resented everyone that made me feel like I had to.

I had to learn to accept myself despite the fact that I was seriously underweight. I had to try and feel sexy.

The learning from my entire career is: never compare yourself to anyone because it'll destroy you.

Being the house ethnic was destroying my life and my sense of myself, because I had been consigned to play every dusky maiden you have ever seen in your life in movies.

People are always going to talk down or bad about you. You can't let that stuff determine what kind of player I am going to be.

I do want to sell as many records and win as many awards as I can. The awards though, they don't necessarily determine if you're good or not. I know that now.

The only opinion that really affects me is my own opinion of myself because I determine the way I am, not anyone else.