Quotes About Self-worth

One of the biggest pieces of advice I'd give you is: Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality. If you're in high school, there are definitely things being said about you. Don't let them determine who you are.

I don't read reviews because if they're bad I'm devastated and if they're good I get a big head.

We're trying to get away from the three D's: dresses, dolls and diaries.

I can't let other people dictate how I see myself.

If you live for the compliments, you'll die by the criticism.

I am not self-destructive. I am not a person who wants to die.

Shame is something you'll find a lot of - particularly Catholic - girls feel about their bodies, about their sexuality, about their diet, about anything you like. Shame is the way you keep them down. That's the way to crush a girl.

I do believe that I deserve what I have. I don't think I'm entitled to it. That's a big difference.

When I wasn't working I didn't know what to do with myself and sort of didn't exist, in a way, when I wasn't working, so I was like two different people. I am not like that anymore.

I don't think anyone should tap you on the shoulder and tell you that it's time to sit down and retire.

I think, a lot of times when you meet someone, you feel like you need to appear like you're not interested in them so that they'll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What's he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don't want to sign up for that.

I'm not a tart. I feel like I've been treated like one in the past.

I don't let it bother me too much if someone doesn't like me. I just figure there's no accounting for taste. It's not me, it's my acting. It's like if someone doesn't like someone's food, they just don't like my acting.

People nag me about my weight, my cooking, my tattoos, my hair, my sexuality, everything. I can deal with all that because I'm still doing my job and I kind of like myself.

You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.

My mom taught me to respect myself, and to question anyone who would ask me to sacrifice my integrity.

Whatever culture, whatever country, girls are taught to please others as opposed to pleasing themselves.

When I first went to interview for 'Misery,' they were saying things like, 'You're not Michelle Pfeiffer, you know.' And I just don't get the relevance of that remark. I'm not Elizabeth Taylor, either. I'm not Sean Connery.

We can't all have faces like Elizabeth Taylor or Angelina Jolie.

I try to stay away from talking about boys all the time. You can go to Taylor Swift to hear that.

I don't play roles everybody likes. I'd rather have a career I'm proud of. Like everyone else, I need to eat. But I'm a very unbusinesslike person, and I keep my price low. I'm not a mass product. I'm not everyone's cup of tea.

We gonna teach the ladies they can still respect themselves and still be beautiful.

I have girls who are concerned about how they look compared to models or what have you. It's my responsibility to teach them that beauty is more than superficial.

It's so sad, actually, how teachers and parents tell their kids, 'You're never gonna be anything.'