Shania Twain Quotes

My whole life, I've felt like I've always had to prove myself. It's never been easy, as easy as others who are in my position have had it.

I'm not pretty. The truth is I didn't think I could be a model at all. I was looking at some of the guys on the walls at Irene Marie and I thought to myself 'Jesus Christ. I can't do this. I don't look anything like these guys'.

Sometimes spending time with someone who is perceived as 'successful' can make us feel less successful.

If everybody lives in the same way, there's something almost narcotizing about it, but the true misery of economic class difference is knowing that you can't have what somebody else does.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.

Miss India actually made me feel small.

I was not born with a golden spoon in my mouth.

The amount of people that I feel like... I'm not being self-demeaning, but I actually feel like I'm not as cool as them, you know what I mean?

No man who says, 'I'm as good as you,' believes it. He would not say it if he did.

The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.

I always feel as if I'm a disappointment: that people want a grand dame in furs like Barbara Taylor Bradford.

I didn't think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I'm not put together like the other chaps.

Insecurity is a natural part of human nature, and there are times we feel our stories are not worth telling, so we turn to the people we admire for strength. If we dress like someone everyone thinks is cool, perhaps we'll be seen as cool.

For some reason, we can't just enjoy somebody else's success. Somehow, that's going to affect us. If they have more, then I have less - and I don't know why.

I see my friends, my family, my cousins work all day long for very little money, and if I have this problem of not being able to wall on the streets, it's not a big deal.

Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.

I grew up very insecure. From the time I was little I used to hide under my mother's dress.

I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off.

I couldn't feel good about myself hanging out in Armani clothes when my girlfriend can't even pay her heating bill. I'd feel foul and I'd be embarrassed.

Who has the best features? This was a little game, conducted several times and always with the same results, in seventh grade, the time when so many of life's little horrors begin.

I always felt slightly grubbier than most American people. I was never quite as groomed as everyone else, never quite as fit as anyone else. I didn't have my protein shake and my vitamins.

Everything the working class has been told to do, the rich do not do. That is my message.