Kate Levering Quotes

You know I don't care if the world thinks I'm smart or not.

You don't need people to tell you how beautiful you are on there.

I'm not worried any more about changing people's view of me.

I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.

I'm not concerned with what people think of me.

Very early on, you figure out that you put your self-esteem in the hands of strangers. There's a different commodity. There's the Helena Bonham Carter that everyone thinks they know, who really has nothing to do with me. But you just have to let that go.

I can't live off the ego.

Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

I'd got over playing a character. People accepted who I was, and if I was incompetent and useless, they felt quite endeared to me.

I don't read reviews. I refuse to have my ego inflated or deflated by someone I don't know.

Many people have this image of me. For a long time, I cared about that.

Ego is good.

One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you.

The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

I don't care about my image.

Fame is damaging when people become reliant on it for their sense of self, and their identity, when fame is linked to how you see yourself.

So much time is wasted on trying to be better than others.

Always think yourself a perfect being and be satisfied with yourself.

Comparison is painful. Don't be cowed by other people's pretty pictures. When you feel unimpressive, or irrelevant, that has nothing to do with what you're actually capable of.

I've changed. I'm not worried about what people think, because I think people think what they want to think anyway.

When I was a younger actor, I was pretty much solely motivated by validation. I just wanted to be told I was good and handsome and a part of the gang. It was pretty simple animal-social stuff. I don't care as much about those things anymore.

I've never bothered about what people say about me.

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

It's always flattering when you get compliments, but it's more of a measure of who you are at the time than anything else.

I always felt second best. I was never the prettiest, never the skinniest, never the fastest in my sports. Never the smartest, because I have dyslexia. Then, all of a sudden, people were like, 'You're gorgeous.' And I was like, 'What?'