Quotes About Self-worth

Women are blessed with lots and lots of extra ways to win or lose validation. If you're a woman, you'll be judged on your beauty and your wit and how often you smile. You'll be judged on how much hair you have in some places and not in others.

I think Hispanic women are beautiful with their curves. I'm not sure who feels that way in Hollywood. I was never told to lose 50 pounds. If they think that they just don't bother with you. You just don't get the role and you never know why. That's still better than physically harming yourself and becoming unhealthy just to star in a movie.

I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled.

The Miss America Pageant reinforces a belief that women are merely how they look and how they please.

I think the biggest mistake people make is not believing in themselves enough.

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.

People tend to put entertainers on pedestals. We're human beings, just like you. You may see us smiling, and whether we have money or not, we still have bills to pay, we still have our stresses. I think a lot of people want to focus on others' shortcomings to make themselves feel better. And it's a very sad thing.

I think that everyone in this world should be confident in who they are and believe in themselves no matter what.

We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.

At the end of the day, if you feel like you're a good person, and your intentions are good, then that's all that matters.

Diane Keaton, I've worked with her as a director, and I think she's a really intelligent woman. I like the fact that the things that make her feel beautiful are more than just her face; it's who she is, and I live by that same theory. There are things I want to achieve in my life intellectually that make me feel beautiful.

I have this theory- that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have.

The one thing I really learned, and learned well, in group therapy was that you don't die if someone doesn't like you.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

You're never as good as they say you are, you're never as bad as they say you are. That's a quote I live by.

We don't take credit for our accomplishments. I can't tell you how many times you'll say to a woman, 'Oh God, what you did was so great', and they say, 'Really? I didn't think it was that good.'

When people compliment me, I don't put much meaning into them, but when they say bad things, I take them too seriously. I try to fix this mentality, but it's hard.

Radio 1 doesn't exist to me. I don't judge my success by anything they say.

The terror of failure can make you feel like a failure. So a bunch of people think you're not very good at your thing. How much do you invest in what they say? How much do you care? Failure is not putting yourself on the line.

As long as those pretty girls notice me, I don't care if they say, 'Ghastly, horrible'... I live for the beautiful angels.

I want everybody to know that I don't care who you are, where you're from, if you're popular or not: we all have haters. But you have to be resilient. You have to not allow them to have the power over you, where you start believing the things they say.

If they say they don't like the way I play Beethoven, then I can swallow that, and maybe they're right. But if they don't like what I've written, then it's about me.

I had to learn that some people are just not going to like you. I had to have thick skin when I would see what people would say or write about me.

Rejection happens, and you have to have a thick skin about it, which is hard. You can't be overly sensitive about people not picking you.