Amanda Seales Quotes

Fortunately my career has never been about how I look, it's about how I can be.

It would be nice to not have to prove myself and for people to know that I'm good and can play a role. Whatever role that is that lets people know that I can play the next role is what I want to do.

I feel like regardless of whether or not I win this award or I win that award or I don't win this award - I'm still Sam at the end of the day. And that's what defines me.

It's hard to prove yourself when the substance isn't there in certain roles.

I wanted to find a way to intelligently argue that we should be valuing our own skills and talents instead of valuing the number of people we can get to look at us.

There are the jobs you get that do something for your confidence, like, 'I can do this with my life' kind of thing. And then, there are the jobs that maybe bring a certain level of awareness about you as an actor, where other people feel like they can hire you.

I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.

It is undeniable that a woman's ability to stretch and pursue her total competence outside the home and get paid what she's worth for it makes for happier and more fulfilled women.

My success is not who I am.

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.

Greater self-esteem produces greater success, and greater success produces more high self-esteem, so it keeps on spiraling up.

Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.

To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.

And I don't think that success is going to destroy me at this point in my life, like I used to think.

I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.

I just want to be challenged. I want to be proud of what I do, and I want to learn new things and keep growing.

'Nothin' on You' changed my life: I finally feel that I reached the point where I wanna be at. At times I questioned whether it was worth the sacrifice, but now I see it was.

I was neither good in sports nor at studies, but I always wanted to stand out and be noticed.

No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence.

Every woman has, for her own self-esteem, to work or have a major interest.

Whatever it is that gives you that confidence will vary from person to person, but I do believe that it is the key to succeeding at anything in life - career, relationships, anything.

Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

I like to work. I believe that work helps us find our self worth.

I learnt a lesson that you mustn't worry what people think if you are achieving your objective.