Quotes About Self-worth

It wouldn't bother me at all if I weren't Princess Caroline of Monaco.

It's kind of embarrassing, but in my early 20s, I used to want to be a princess. But I didn't want to have to marry somebody in order to do it!

A feeling of self worth is the best accomplishment we can foster in our prisons.

I really don't mind what people assume about me. I really think that my brain is my private thing. I don't need the approval of people. I don't need people to think I'm intelligent. And I'm not that intelligent.

Just because I am private person doesn't mean I am not a good person.

In private school, I definitely judged myself against the lighter-skinned girls. I wanted to have different hair. I wanted to fit in. I thought that was more beautiful.

You're a human being, and every time a list of prize nominations comes out and your name isn't on it, you do have that thumb-in-the-eye feeling.

My daughter is not an object to flash around or a prized item to put on display.

I was never much of a one to win prizes... and certainly never placed too much value on their acquisition.

I didn't know I was good enough to be a pro growing up.

If you don't like me, it's your problem.

In grammar school some of the girls had problems with me. My face was too light. My hair was too long. It was the black-consciousness period, and I felt really bad.

Don't do what I did and think you need to have these procedures to make you look more attractive. Don't look at the implant and think it will make you beautiful and everyone will really love you.

You can't make somebody love you, no matter what you do to yourself. You can get implants, you can get all these procedures, thinking you will be more of a woman for that person. But it does not make a difference. If they don't love you, they won't no matter what you do to your appearance.

When you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose you self-worth in the process.

I just really want be proud of the work I'm doing, whether it's something I've written, produced, or am starring in. I just want to be proud of it.

I've worked with producers who have told me to lose weight, and I'm not overweight, but they want you to look strange, anorexic, horrible. It's odd. It's like they are exerting a power over women, that they want them to look really frail.

I do not want to waste my time by counting films of other producers as I have better things to perform.

You don't have to make something in order to retain your identity as an artist or a writer or a creative person. A lot of people think they have to be producing in order to maintain that identity.

If I get anything out, producing anything, no matter whether it's good or not, I allow myself a little pat on the back.

Childhood doesn't have to be perfect, and children don't have to be beautiful. From a bit of grit may grow a pearl, and if pearl production doesn't materialise, the outcome will still be preferable to the shallowness of vanity.

I always feel guilty for having a day off because I feel like I'm not being productive.

That's not my position to compare myself to other guys. I look at it as can I be productive, can I get the job done?

I didn't want to lose my sense of myself in my profession.