Quotes About Self-worth

If you look hard enough, you'll find something good about me and say it.

'Something Good' is a feel-good song. A reminder that you're dope and have something wonderful to offer life and yourself and the world.

If something good happens to you, and no one knows it, did it really happen? Moreover, if you don't publicize your accomplishments and good fortune, are you essentially saying you don't care about them?

Films are not the sole area in my life. Films are a passion. But it's not like I'll die if I don't get another movie. I'll grow, I'll flourish, I'll learn something new, but I'll always do something that I like. If I get the right film, I'll do it. I will not compromise for anything else.

I sometimes lie, especially about personal things, because what does it matter? I am a kind of minute commodity, my name is no longer my own.

It is definitely somewhat a crutch of feeling that you have to please others in order to be accepted.

When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count.

To sell yourself is somewhat debasing, and everyone is selling something.

I know there are nights when I have power, when I could put on something and walk in somewhere, and if there is a man who doesn't look at me, it's because he's gay.

Shame doesn't exist as an emotion without the projected or perceived sense of judgment coming from somewhere else.

Learn to see yourself as Heavenly Father sees you - as His precious daughter or son with divine potential.

My son don't have to say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud. He don't have to be called those crazy names.

I don't want to be 35 years old and still popping out songs in miniskirts and la-la-la.

I couldn't say no to jobs and I couldn't say no to drugs. I'd get high from a movie, I'd be somebody else because I didn't particularly like me, so long as I had a script in my hand, I was okay. As soon as the movie was over, I didn't know what to do.

She who boasts of lovers soon has none.

In modelling, there is no point in trying to prove you have a brain, so why even bother? I'd sooner save the energy for something more meaningful.

I'm sorry, I'm not a performing monkey.

I find myself saying 'sorry' for things I shouldn't be sorry for, haha.

I, personally, have had to rise above my feelings of inferiority to my sister Anjelica, not to mention feeling sorry for myself because I lost my mother so young.

Sports are basically our way of feeling sorry for ourselves. Most men can't become athletes. We're watching guys who actually made it. We see them dunking and making touchdowns. Then we think about ourselves when we were younger.

I'm done saying 'I'm sorry I wasn't who you needed or wanted me to be' to everybody in my life.

I feel sorry for girls getting caught up in it and still thinking they have to define themselves and their success by being in a relationship, straight women, straight girls, by being in a heterosexual relationship or being in any relationship, as if that's in any way a mark of what kind of successful human being you are.

I am sorry if I am going to disappoint women who feel that becoming a mother completes you. I don't feel I am any less of a woman for not having a child.

I knew it was time to pack it in. I was in my 60s... I could still sing but I didn't want to get to that point where people feel sorry for me.