Quotes About Self-esteem

I sell myself for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference.

I did nothing to look the way I look. The genetic cards that anyone is dealt are not in their control, so to take pride in my looks would be a mistake. And besides, in L.A. there's always someone more beautiful!

I never grew up with a mother's hand - that's why I will forever be insecure, I think, in that primal way.

I only ever became conscious of how hairy I was when I got to Year Six, the last year of primary school.

I got the name in primary school because my hair was shaggy. And I didn't like it; I thought it was derogatory.

If you have a smothering parent, the effect it can apparently have on a child is to give them, in equal doses, a sense of too much self-esteem, because they are mummy's little princess or prince, and low self-esteem. It affects future relationships.

I had a great deal of confidence when I graduated from Berkeley. I had almost none when I was at Princeton. After a while, when people tell you you can't do something because you're a woman, you begin to believe maybe they're right.

I went from being pretty fit to 230 lbs., which isn't, like, the biggest for being 6-feet-tall, but I had been 165 lbs. just three months prior. That taught me a lot about how people treat you differently when you're fit and when you're bigger.

Happiness is definitely a priority in our household. That the kids are happy and everybody is comfortable. Self-esteem is very important.

What a woman does or does not do to her face is personal. And as with most other things, makeup or a lack thereof can serve as either a prison or a fortress commanded by the mind: you can become a slave to it, or it can set you free.

I've spent most of my life in prison. I was a prisoner of my fear and my low self-esteem.

I was really self conscious as a kid, I felt terrible - like a prisoner in my own body.

A feeling of self worth is the best accomplishment we can foster in our prisons.

You couldn't give me any more confidence than when I was on T.V. because I was in control, but I wasn't in control in my private life.

My body image as I grew up was very difficult... I was so conscious of being fat. But one thing I was aware of as being problematic for 12, 14 years was overeating and then purging.

Pretty girls have problems too.

Don't do what I did and think you need to have these procedures to make you look more attractive. Don't look at the implant and think it will make you beautiful and everyone will really love you.

The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.

After 'Freaks and Geeks,' I dealt with several producers who wanted to cover up all my beauty marks, every single mole on my body. They tried to cover them on my first two episodes of 'Dawson's Creek,' and it just looked ridiculous, so I had to put my foot down. But it's not something I'm insecure about.

At the beginning of 'Friends,' Matt LeBlanc was anxious. Every time he did something, he would look for approval to the director, the producers or the writers if they were around. There would be a look of: 'Am I doing this right?'

I won't put a product out that I don't 100 percent believe in. All of my products are made from the best ingredients and are made to make a woman feel like herself, only prettier and more confident.

If you have a good self-esteem, you can be generous, you can give back and you can be productive in the world.

Shaming people isn't productive. That makes you feel bad about yourself.

Everyone's curves fall in a different place. But you can't put something of mine on and not see curves.