James Howe Quotes

I believe with the best of who I am in God, but I sometimes think if anybody would watch me and [they] didn't believe a damn thing, they would have a very hard time deciding which of us is which.

...and yet I am what they think I am.

Don't believe what anyone tells you about yourself.

I feel like every role that you take there's a part of you that obviously feels like you can do it. I don't know if perfect is the right word because I don't believe in perfection and I don't think it exists but I think striving to do something well is in every single part.

Every man is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing.

If you go too far down the rabbit hole of what people think about you, it can change everything about who you are.

I've given up trying to understand what people think about me.

We wear a lot of labels in our lives, and it's so very easy to be defined by them. We have grown somehow accustomed to thinking of ourselves as a size eight or a size fourteen, as a capricorn or a taurus, as single or in love.

If you're a creative person, you'd better not read what people write about you, because if it's good it'll blow your head up and it'll force you not to take the subway and you'll start taking cabs, and you'd better stay around people, and if it's bad, it just hurts your feelings so much it discourages you.

There's a lot of negative messaging and it beats on you after a while. And people are growing up with that stuff and they start believing it themselves.

I don't have to be good because they think I'm going to be good.

No matter what anybody says, what matters most is what you think of yourself.

Giving yourself threads doesn't mean you don't believe in yourself in my opinion.

We never believe we're beautiful, no matter how many times we hear it. We never believe it until someone says it in the right way.

Never mind what the 'people' think of you! They may overestimate or underestimate you! Until they discover your real worth, your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself. You can succeed if nobody else believes it; but you will never succeed if you don't believe in yourself.

It is so easy for a woman to become what the man she loves believes her to be

I think I prioritize other people's opinions of me very highly, which is not necessarily a good thing - it's a thing that causes a lot of anxiety.

Each person tells you who they think they are, and who they think you are.

I don't think I am beautiful. I can look good and I can look ugly.

I am a sick man...I am a wicked man. An unattractive man. I think my liver hurts. However, i don't know a fig about my sickness, and am not sure what it is that hurts me. I am not being treated and never have been, though I respect medicine. What's more, I am also superstitious in the extreme; well, at least enough to respect medicine.

When you're in your own body, you don't feel great about yourself. I don't think of myself that way.

Nothing is real if you don't believe in who you are!

I don't know how much of a natural human I am. Y'know, the truth is, I never set out to do that, and I don't think of myself like that. I don't think like that. It's not really about promotion - I don't really understand the idea of promotion, talking to a camera for more money. That's just money. And I like money, don't get me wrong. I don't know. I don't get it. I don't understand it as much as you don't understand me, I think.

The man who believes he can do it is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can't.

I had a pretty poor self-image for a long time. I broke into acting as a model in New York. I was never anything like a "supermodel," but I made a living at it for a couple years. The thing was, I was convinced that I was tricking everyone into thinking I was attractive.