Barbara Sher Quotes

I do feel that I myself wouldn't have had, in my life looking back, the courage to go out and say, 'I'm a good actress.' So I think I'm one of those people that needed to be seen by someone else to see myself.

Sooner or later people will learn to recognize your worth

I'm such a perfectionist. I always feel overpraised or whatever. In the abstract, I know I'm a good person, a good professional. But it's nice to be noticed a little bit, ain't it?

You are valued more than you know, by more people than you think. It might be good to get in touch today with your true worth. It is much higher than you often give it credit for being -- and now is a perfect time to know, and to gently assert, that fact. This is not about arrogance and it is not about over confidence. It is about a simple, dignified Knowing.

Screen credit is valuable only when it's given you. If you're in a position to give yourself credit, you don't need it.

I know I'm underrated.

It's always flattering when you get compliments, but it's more of a measure of who you are at the time than anything else.

I don't think I really have the respect that I think I deserve.

Why do people need awards? Don't you know your value and your worth? I don't need anybody's award or acceptance.

I'm always trying to prove myself to the rest of the world.

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

I've been in situations where I've said to young people: "You're so personable, you're so articulate, you're clearly so bright, you're so good-looking - feel better about yourself!" But if at the core if you don't, all those words mean nothing. Absolutely nothing.

We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.

You can be loved by your family, your mate, and your friends yet not love yourself. You can be admired by your associates yet regard yourself as worthless. You can project an image of assurance and poise that fools almost everyone yet secretly tremble with a sense of inadequacy. You can fulfill the expectations of others yet fail your own. You can win every honor yet feel that you have accomplished nothing. What shall it profit a person to gain the esteem of the whole world yet lose his or her own?

Confidence is a reduction of your own interest in whether others are thinking about you and if so, what they're thinking.

He doesn't need to be reminded you're great.

No matter how useful we may be, sometimes it takes us a while to recognize our own value.

'Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth.

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

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

I kept wanting to push my image as validity; I wanted to see my portrait on a wall and know it was okay.

Do I really need to prove anything to anybody? I don't feel that I have to prove anything. The only thing that I have to prove is to myself, that I have value.

If you walk into a room and one hundred people say, 'You are a lovely, beautiful person', who isn't going to be affected by that? But you have to tell yourself not to value that. You have to tell yourself - or at least I do - to not become accustomed to hearing applause in any way, because I think that's dangerous.

Am I really cool? You're telling me I'm cool? Well, that's good to hear.

I wish there was something that - I get all those wonderful letters and wonderful acknowledgments, and I wish I could be more appreciative of what I do. But it's hard for me.