Kirstin Maldonado Quotes

I'm happy that I wrote 'How Should a Person Be?' and I wouldn't have written that exact book if we had just done the play. So much of the book is about the anxiety of failure - the failure of the play and the failure of the divorce and the failure of not feeling like a good person.

One thing I learned about that I always knew about myself - that I always been afraid of myself.

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

It's tough being me.

I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.

Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

I'm searching, as we all are, for ways to feel good about myself. Certainly, looking in the mirror doesn't do it!

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

I used to worry that if I wasn't having a dynamic life, then I wouldn't have anything to talk about.

My personality is a personality where I get really, really nervous and doubtful about almost everything, which is always a work in progress to build up my confidence a little bit more.

I'm getting stronger as a person, but sometimes I just need to get over myself!

Even when I become a regular, I don't feel comfortable and try to always improve more.

I think we all go through those moments of self-doubt.

Once, in a dry season, I wrote in large letters across two pages of a notebook that innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself. Although now, some years later, I marvel that a mind on the outs with itself should have nonetheless made painstaking record of its every tremor, I recall with embarrassing clarity the flavor of those particular ashes. It was a matter of misplaced self-respect.

I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.

The 12 years I was in Fleetwood Mac before were not particularly happy years. I was not in a very good place, psychologically, when I left. I didn't have a lot of confidence in what I was doing.

I was not fighting myself at all as I used to.

I think people change, but the media, they never allowed me to change. They never allowed me to be a better person.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself.

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.

No one is perfect and everyone wishes they could change something about themselves.

Unless I try, I'm never really going to be at ease with myself.

For me, growing up, I felt like there was something fatally and tragically flawed in my nature and that it was my duty to try to avoid falling for that vice.

In middle school, we are all so damn insecure. It was the worst time for me, really destructive, like slapping myself across the face but loving it. Now I have to be an adult and change myself. I have to be a bigger person.