Quotes About Self-worth

An all-girls school, when you have 800 girls from the age of 11 to 18, you would think, should be a prime opportunity to really inject a sense of confidence and power. And instead, we were very much taught in relation to men, in terms of what the brother school would think of us.

Life is too short to be in relationships where you feel this isn't fully right.

We women often gauge our own self-worth by the quality of our interactions with our lovers. And often these interactions are interpreted for, described for, processed by our women friends. Relationships are the conduits through which flows our connection with each other.

I'm not annoying in relationships! I'm great!

There was never a perception that I was second-class relative to boys. That gave me confidence.

I mean, I am relatively pleased with myself and the world. But I don't assume that I'm liked.

I wish you could make money and people never saw what you did. Then you could relax and not care about how bad you are.

I'm on the patch right now. Where it releases small dosages of approval until I no longer crave it, and then I'm gonna rip it off.

My looks mean nothing to me. If anything, they are a hindrance.

I didn't feel like I fitted in. I felt like I was a hindrance to A-ha.

Nobody would hire me for TV, not that they should.

It's really important for actors to feel that they're more than something for hire.

When I go to auditions, I try to always make sure I go in prepared. I always think to myself, 'I'm here to provide them with a service. They need me, and if they decide to hire me for this service, I'm going to give them the best they've ever paid for and if they don't, they're dumb.' That's on them.

My experience - I'll never know what happens behind closed doors or why I don't get hired for something, but I've never had an experience that made me feel any less than.

But I guess the lesson is this: If you don't have confidence in yourself and think that you are worth hiring, or whatever it is, you can't expect anyone else to.

People aren't hiring me to be a 'yes' man. They have their girlfriends for that.

I wanted control over what was said and what was not said, rather than holding my head down in shame.

And if I'm being honest, I don't think I have an ex-boyfriend who would have something mean to say about me.

I didn't think Barca could go for me, I have no honors, I don't have a great CV.

I know what it's like to have guys make you feel like you need to flirt with them or be sexy or hook up with them or something, and you don't have to do those things. You just have to be strong and stand your ground.

When I run into disappointment - say, for example, not getting a role I'd hoped for - I just try not to take it personally.

It's difficult to always have to be contextualized within the careers of your parents, and it's difficult not to feel like you can stand alone, but hopefully I'll earn the ability to stand alone over time.

It's so important for girls to respect themselves and not put themselves down and say, 'Oh, my life is horrible,' and 'I'm not pretty enough.' How do you know? There's this energy people give off that people can be drawn to.

I think I'm a decent-looking guy. Sometimes I can look great, and other times I look horrifying.