Quotes About Self-worth

I didn't want my career to dissolve based on me passively accepting anything I was given if it didn't feel right.

Sometimes I think it's better to be a diva.

It is nice to be the most expensive Dutchman, and it is nice for my agent and for Ajax. But it does not matter to me whether I cost €5m or €150m or €200m. I just need to make sure that I do my own thing.

'Cougar' has become so distasteful. I really hate that expression.

Just because we wear hair extensions and make-up doesn't mean we're the punchline for every joke.

I perform as much as I can, to the extent I don't want to sell myself out.

If any female - or male - does something in order to get 'likes' on their video or to get fans, they're being exploited, and they're actually selling out to a certain extent.

When I was in my early 20s, I looked towards exterior things to make me feel sexy - guys, clothes, shoes, etc. Now it's all about how I feel internally.

I'm not going to change me just for some extra money.

For several decades, I believed it was necessary to be extraordinary if you wanted to write, and since I wasn't, I gave up my ambition and settled down to a life of reading.

If you allow yourself to feel fabulous, you are fabulous.

I am somebody who feels that we're all fabulous, every human being, and I think when we do things that aren't so fabulous, we are disconnected from who we really are.

I have faced a lot of people who said that I would always be in my father's shadow. I just take that, and I use that as a boost because, as much as I love my father, I am trying to make a name for myself.

Black isn't something I became after a car crash that I've been dealing with ever since. I'd like the colour of my skin to not be a factor in my life at all.

So I think the biggest thing that I've learnt in my career is not allowing external factors to determine my self-worth - external factors being what coaches think of me, the amount of playing time I get - not allowing those things that actually are out of my control affect how I feel about myself.

What's David's role? David looks good, that's what David does. David looks good, and I'm the funny one, that's what I hear constantly. But I keep telling him that looks fade.

Many of us stay in situations that don't serve us because we don't want to confront the fact that we've failed.

If the world is telling you you're successful, but you don't feel it, you might as well have failed.

If you are trying to achieve the 'perfect body' or aspiring to be like someone else, you are only going to feel like you failed.

You have to learn how not to be defined by failure.

I hate people feeling like failures, I hate it because no one's a failure.

I date fairly often, but my work is much more important.

I don't want to just fall back on the fact that I was on the cover of 'GQ' for being an actor.

It's very hard not to let fame affect you because you are continually being told how good you are. After a while you begin to think there must be some truth in it because all those people can't be wrong.