Hank Aaron Quotes

Everything you think about yourself, everything you believe about yourself, is because you learned it.

I always wondered if I was supposed to be excellent at something or not. I think, because of that, I have a lot of insecurities about myself.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

We tell girls to be themselves, but then they have role models - sometimes too many role models - in popular culture who incarnate that kind of disconnectedness from oneself. We are taught to self-hate; we are taught to doubt. Our culture doesn't help us recognize ourselves as amazing beings without changing ourselves.

Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.

Who cares about my opinions?

Being an actress hasn't made me insecure. I was insecure long before I declared I was an actress.

I still need to go through the process of proving myself.

Like anybody, you have moments when you question yourself and you're insecure.

Not everybody's confident their whole life.

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.

A lot of the advertisement is done by saying: first of all, have a complex about who you are.

Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.

I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.

I'm not that interesting!

I feel, as a person, very uninteresting.

My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.

I spent an awful lot of my life underestimating myself and, as a result, not exceeding my own expectations.

I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

I wasn't truly comfortable with myself until I was about 30. I spent so much time and energy wondering if I wasn't worthy, and trying to find people to validate me, instead of validating myself.

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

I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.

I have this theory- that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have.

We all have to find beauty within us, as opposed to just our exterior.

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