Quotes About Self-worth

I feel it's important to show that one thing that you do doesn't define you as a human being. It doesn't mean there aren't ramifications or you shouldn't pay for that but its not who you are.

It used to hurt when people ran down my films. I used to feel inferior. I wouldn't go to parties or award functions because my cinema is not considered good enough. But now I keep my head high, and I am proud of what I am doing.

I really had a problem with being 'the man.' I'm past it now, but that was my insecurity. I ran from that. I was cool with being No. 3 on the call sheet or No. 2.

I'd rather sit at home than be a part of a popular show and be a piece of furniture.

I'm happy to be told that I am beautiful, but I don't gain anything from that.

I don't really read reviews and comments that much. There just isn't a lot to be gained from it.

It's about gaining that confidence back in myself. Believing in myself more than others may believe.

I used to think I was a bad person, I'd drink and gamble a lot and I didn't want to but I kept on doing it and ending back at the same place. It made me think 'this can't be right, I'm not that bad of a person'.

Closing the confidence gap means being honest about your abilities, not constantly undervaluing them.

I don't necessarily want to know what people are saying when I'm not around, especially if it's about me. I just don't need to hear extra garbage.

People didn't like me because I didn't take any garbage.

Coming out to gays is a way of affirming sanity and self-worth.

Never allow other people to classify you based on your past and current circumstances, where you were born, your experiences, your gender, or your race.

Well, that embarrassment gene, I don't really have a lot of it.

I would like to be known as one of the best actors in the world because that is something that I would have earned. And being sexiest would come from my genes... it is something I was born with and not earned it for myself.

The best confidence artist makes us feel not as if we're being taken for a ride but as if we are genuinely wonderful human beings who are acting the way wonderful human beings act and getting what we deserve.

The books on my nightstand are so bizarre, very eclectic - like, every German author, and then I have a couple of books by this ex-boyfriend of mine there. I just want to make sure that he's not too much better than I am!

The Germans are very critical. They like to drag acts down. They make you feel you're not so good - not so important.

One day I'd like to show what I can do as a coach in Germany. But I won't bend over backwards for a job in the Bundesliga and lock myself in my house for 24 hours just to win other people's approval.

I am not the kind of person who won't get married because of my career, because there was nothing great happening in my career anyway.

Nothing ruins your day more than getting a bad review.

And now they are getting married, and I'm still single! What's wrong with me?

I would go out with people who really didn't like me very much and then wonder why we weren't getting married!

There's ageism in everything. I don't give a hoot. It isn't what other people think; it's what you think. But it's hard to come to terms with getting older. I admire people like Vivienne Westwood.