Quotes About Self-worth

Negative feedback can make people feel inferior.

I don't want to bring negative energy to myself, and if people feel one way about me, I don't want that changing how I feel or what I believe.

Once I got done with my career, I knew in my soul that I don't have any negative thoughts about myself.

Most difficult is the labeling by other people that models are empty-headed bodies. I think if you look for negativity, you can find it anywhere.

I think no matter what or no matter who you are you're always going to get some type of negativity, whatever that may be.

It's the nature of a human that when you get neglected somewhere, you want to go back and prove a point.

My neighbors don't care that I'm an author. It's inherently ego-inhibiting.

I don't love being thought of as Neil's barnacle. It's a strange shadow to follow.

I'm neither embarrassed of who I am, where I come from, what I've experienced, I'm not ashamed of it.

I never wanted to be on any billionaires list. I never define myself by net worth. I always try to define myself by my values.

I don't calculate my net worth.

If I had never gotten famous or rich, I think I'd be equally neurotic.

I don't sell myself. I've never explained my comedy to people who don't get it. Never complain. Never explain.

One day I said to my dad, 'Are you disappointed that I'm working a minimum-wage job and I didn't go to college?' I'll never forget his response. He said, 'It's not about how much money you make or what your job is, but it's more about your character. For that, I'm proud of you.'

My motto is you should never take criticism from people you would never go to for advice.

Never think you're too good for a role, and never take yourself too seriously.

My daughter had carried within her a story that kept hurting her: Her dad abandoned her. She started telling herself a new story. Her dad had done the best he could. He wasn't capable of giving more. It had nothing to do with her. She could no longer take it personally.

Since I got a really bad review when I was, like, 28 in 'The New York Times,' I don't read reviews anymore.

The bosses at Newcastle basically decided they didn't want me. Ultimately, there isn't anything you can do about that. The only thing you can do is move on. But I don't think I've anything to prove.

If who you were was entirely based upon the position you were in or the headlines you got in the newspaper, or you had essentially subcontracted out your self-worth to the judgments of others, then you're going to be like tumbleweed. You're going to be blown.

It is impossible not to hear some of the criticism. However, no newspaper, nor journalist, is going to tell me who I am. I know who I am.

That's kind of always been that thing in the back of mind if I'm good enough to do certain things or take that next step in my career.

I like to look nice, but I'm not marketing being beautiful.

I'd like to meet a nice girl and leave all those 'hottest bachelor' lists behind.