Allison Janney Quotes

You don't need to be criticised to play well or things like that.

The thing that helped me come to terms with performing was an anxiety, a desperation for acceptance. There was never enough positive motivation in my life.

If you keep telling a youngster he is no good, he might begin to doubt himself. A pat on the back could bring the very best out of him.

If you don't believe in yourself, somewhere or another, you sabotage yourself.

I was 'Little Ty,' 'Little Tyrone.' I always got this negative feedback from the game of basketball.

When people doubt me, I want to prove them wrong.

One of my biggest fears is to be proven wrong by somebody that doesn't agree with me or doesn't have my best interest at heart. With that being said I'm always seeking to prove those types of people wrong.

I could see that I was losing weight and sometimes I'd see a few good comments and that spiralled me to be like: 'This is how I need to stay.' No one cares whether your performance was good, or if you sounded great.

Man is so made that by continually telling him he is a fool he believes it, and by continually telling it to himself he makes himself believe it. For man holds an inward talk with himself, which it pays him to regulate.

I was really blessed with parents who never said I couldn't do anything. And now I reflect as an adult on that, 'Wow, they never told me no!'

I've always been a guy that's liked a crowd and having people around cheering for me. I'm not a guy that will keep his head down or respond negatively to boos or whatever.

I think I had really good parents. I got really lucky. They said, 'You're a woman; enjoy yourself and believe that you can do things.'

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful, then you start believing you're fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!

There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.

Women are always told, 'You're not going to make it, its too difficult, you can't do that, don't enter this competition, you'll never win it,' - they need confidence in themselves and people around them to help them to get on.

Don't assume your child is weak. If you, the parent, assume that they can't take anymore, what kind of signal are you sending them?

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

I learned really valuable lessons from 'Blue's Clues.' I'd repeat them every day. 'You can do things. You are smart.'

I have a cycle that is not particularly cool, but it's a cycle: trash myself to reward myself.

I was aware that everybody said I was going to be a vast mega-flop, and that William Hague was just oh-so intelligent, and oh such a great parliamentarian, and therefore so different from me! So I thought, I must deprive them of the satisfaction of proving themselves right.

I don't intimidate anyone. Instead, I try to get people to believe in themselves.

As good as I was at wrestling, I never thought I was any good.

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

My dad is truly the person who always made me believe in myself, to appreciate that I was smart.

I have to convince myself I know what I'm doing.