Aldous Harding Quotes

I feel, as a person, very uninteresting.

The thing is I don't feel like my story is special. I don't feel like it's different to anybody else.

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I'm special, but honestly, I still don't get it.

I, uh, don't think I'm, y'know, so different than your average, y'know, average.

Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.

Okay, I am happy with the way I look, but I have never, never, ever thought of myself as a 'pretty girl.' Honestly. When I read some of these scripts I'm sent, and they describe the heroine as 'incredibly beautiful,' I wonder why they sent it to me.

I always thought I was good. That's why it was so frustrating when other people didn't agree.

Well, honestly I feel like an ordinary woman.

It's kind of weird, because I look at myself as just a normal person. My friends get rejected all the time, so why shouldn't I? I don't think I'm anything special.

Half of my anxiety is about whether people are going to like me.

I wish sometimes people wouldn't underestimate me. But it's a fleeting wish. It's not where I live.

I went through it in high school. It's like, 'Who am I? Am I good enough? Is my background good enough? I know I'm different, but do I have a voice?'

I'm not a cool girl. I wish I was.

I can't help feeling that I am not a very important person, and being treated like one gives me strange feelings.

I really don't think I have anything special to say.

I'm the type of person who feels I have to prove myself first.

I hate people thinking I'm some pretentious fraud.

I consider myself a little weak.

No, I never ever considered myself attractive.

I feel confidence in myself, but at the same time there's these cracks in the facade and those little things underneath that are unstable.

It was better to be known as the kid who could draw than as the short kid.

Go out and face the world secure in the knowledge that everybody else thinks they are better looking than they are as well.

Successful people tend to feel simultaneously inadequate and superior.

I grew up thinking you're either a winner in the world, or you're not. I presumed I was not. I had no reason to think I would be, and my inclination is towards self-deprecation. I wish I'd known no one was judging my every move, but I'm still like this!

Some women can feel under-qualified due to a general lack of confidence whereas, in fact, they are uniquely qualified.