Quotes About Self-worth

Criticism really used to hurt me. Most of these critics are usually frustrated artists, and they criticise other people's art because they can't do it themselves. It's a really disgusting job. They must feel horrible inside.

I always tell my kids that as soon as you have a secret, something about you that you are ashamed to have others find out, you have given other people the power to hurt you by exposing you.

At the end of the day it's going to hurt your feelings if someone says something mean about you, but I've learned to take a step back and ask myself if it's really going to affect me, if this person who I'm never going to know or meet doesn't like me - and it doesn't.

When you become an adult and you have a choice of who to have in your life, if someone's hurting you and making you feel bad, then they shouldn't be in your life, even if it's a family member.

It hurts when people put you down.

One bad review can destroy me. It hurts so bad.

You cannot allow whether someone likes you or not to alter your course of action. Sometimes I think, 'Sure, that hurts my feelings.' But it's not so important that I will adjust what I'm doing because someone is not going to like me.

We women feel we are here to serve. That's the mistake we make. We may have children, husbands, lovers, bills, responsibility. Those things don't own us, but too often we let them.

Don't accept or be crippled by the media hype that aging is bad or shameful.

I think about the people that I've seen change because they believed in their own hype. I just never want that to happen to me.

I don't really hype myself up with fancy things.

I always kind of say to people, don't believe the hype. You are never as good as what they say; you are never as bad, and remember that you do it just to make you happy and to enjoy it.

I want people to fall in love with themselves and to be really proud and full of joy for the space they take up. If someone else appreciates the space you take up, then that's icing on the cake.

I don't work for awards; they're just an icing on the cake.

I don't want to be compared to Brad Pitt because I don't want to, you know, disappoint anybody. Brad Pitt is an icon.

My beauty icons - and this sounds cheesy - have a beauty that comes from inside.

The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.

In an ideal world, the 'Daily Mail' would write about what a brilliant mother I am. But it's not going to happen.

It is kind of hard to figure out who you are when you've lost your job at age 13, when that was basically how you identified yourself.

The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hearts.

I think everybody wants to feel validated in some way, and when you're looking for leisure activities or if you're looking for escapism or things like that, you want to read about characters you can identify with.

A belt doesn't identify me.

Own your identity. Love who you are in the world. Love your deafness.

You own your identity; it is important to feel that way.