Lynn Johnston Quotes

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

I didn't take myself seriously for a long time.

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

Nobody walks this earth thinking he's better than I think I am - I think I'm great. At the same time, it's so obvious to me that I'm nobody.

Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.

Personally, I've struggled with a lot of doubt in myself at times.

Best advice: 'Just be yourself.' Worst advice: 'Just be yourself.'

I realized that everybody is a critic. They're going to say they hate you, they love you, they this, they that, but at the end of the day, no matter what, I have to be confident in myself as a man and an artist.

I lack self-confidence. I don't know whether I shall ever get it. Perhaps it is better to be unsure of your self, as I am. But it is very tiring.

There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing

I'm the type of person who feels I have to prove myself first.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.

Someone once pulled me aside and said it was all right to succeed, and I realised that I knew what failure felt like, but I didn't know what success felt like. I've carried that with me ever since.

Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-brake on.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

I don't always understand my worth.

I'm 43 now. I've reached the point where I really can't care what anyone thinks. Of course, I do. I'm an actress. I'm totally insecure, but I'm trying to stick to my guns about what is important to me, and it doesn't matter what anyone thinks I should or shouldn't do.

But the real secret to total gorgeousness is to believe in yourself, have self confindence, and try to be secure in your decisions and thoughts.

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.

I was always rather outspoken. I worried about what people thought of me but there really wasn't room for a lot of self-doubt.

I think I'm great. I mean, I might as well come out and say it. Like most people, I have an ego and I'm in show business, so you have to have kind of a healthy, conflagrated ego to a degree. On the other hand, I'm consumed, like a lot of people, with self-doubt and loathing and guilt.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

My ego's not the kind that says, 'I want to be an actor and be accepted as that.'

Why am I a star? It can't be because of looks.

Look, I don't care if anyone likes me when it comes to my work. But I can be massively insecure in other parts of my life.