Quotes About Self-worth

There's no reason to be ashamed of feeling good.

You can't let nobody step on your ego, dismantle your whole image for no reason.

When you play for ticket-holders, you are already validated. I have no sense that I need to be accepted. I'm already accepted.

I have no talent. I have nothing to offer.

I have no time for being embarrassed.

I don't play Hollywood maids, the hee-hee kind of people who are so in love with their madam's children they have no time for their own.

Who's going to want to hire me in the business world? I have no work experience.

Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

Don't change for nobody.

I always knew I had something to say even when nobody else wanted to listen.

The only person that can define you is you. Nobody else can.

It wouldn't kill me if I were never nominated or elected to anything.

The only shame is to have none.

I didn't have Cartier. I didn't have Gucci, Louis, none of that.

God is not a doormat, nor should anyone else be a doormat.

You are not, nor ever will be, better than anyone else besides the person you are now.

I realized I deserve to be happy and have all the things I want in life. It might be scary and outside the norm of what everybody else does, but I need to just go for it.

If I'd found out that Norman Mailer liked me. I'd have killed myself.

There's no great shame in having your nose fixed.

I see so many women thinking other women are their enemies - especially when they don't have a job or a guy or whatever. It's like, 'I don't have what I want, and she does, so she must be my enemy.' I find it confusing and not fair and sad.

And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else.

I can't do all that riddly diddly stuff. I'm not good enough. It's all about not playing.

There are a lot of people who give you the message that maybe you are not good enough, and the best thing you can do for yourself is to block out all of that noise.

I was told, 'You are not beautiful and glamorous enough,' 'Oh no, you're too serious an actor...' 'You're not good enough an actor,' 'You are not so and so's daughter.' I was even told, 'You are not a big, marketable name.'