Steve Clevenger Quotes

Many people think I am an idiot. I think I am a genius.

My job is not to be a supermodel.

I'm really not worried about my image overall.

From the beginning of puberty, I did really badly in school. I was super dyslexic; I was in special ed. I had a hard time reading and writing, so I thought that my self worth was in my looks, how I presented myself, and how other people perceived me.

I don't look at myself and think I'm that special.

I am who I am and I don't pretend not to be single or burned. And men might not fancy me because I'm too short or too thin.

I remember being in high school and this guy saying to me, 'You'd actually be good-looking if you didn't joke around so much.' That affected me, and so I stopped joking around, and I stopped being a goof because I thought people would like me better.

I don't think I'm a bad egg.

I have never felt that I am a star. It never came to my mind.

I've always been, I guess, pretty cool.

What other people think of me isn't any of my business but it's nice when people say nice things.

My mom always told me, 'You're very smart; you're very funny.' She never told me, 'You're very beautiful.'

There's a lot of people that think I'm a terrible basketball player, so it's just gonna piss me off. And if it's people who think I'm good, I'll be happy. I'm just not gonna read it at all and stay content in my own mind.

I realized that everyone was only complimenting me for the way I looked. More than my voice, people focused on how pretty I am.

I don't think people need to worry about how I stand.

I'm not the most beautiful one of my family.

I'd been involved with stand-up before improv, so I already thought highly of myself as being a funny person. I never thought I wasn't funny.

I go through phases sometimes: 'I'm a genius; they get me,' and sometimes I'm like, 'Why does anyone want to hear me?'

Only when you feel good about yourself will others look up to you.

I'm not uncomfortable with my looks.

At the end of the day, the way I go about it is don't let somebody else's opinion of you define who you are. Don't let other people's thoughts or whatever it is be true.

I have said many times: We have self-esteem or don't, based on how we were raised! Self-esteem is normally produced in your first 7-8 years of life.

My livelihood depends on my surface beauty, but when I wash my face, I see a real person there.

So much of politics is about people's relationships with themselves. You do better if you make people feel secure in who they are.

I am not defined by somebody's comments or an article or somebody's angst about me or their anxiety about me or what is being said about me on social media.