Alex Newell Quotes

Sometimes I think it's better to be a diva.

I'm very confident in how I project my personality.

I can't assume that people see me the way I see myself. I have to show them. But I can't do it in a way where it's too much, where it's rude. I feel like when you're a king, you lead. And I just see myself as a king, or as something more than just a regular human being.

When I started getting in front of the camera a lot, I think my confidence started to come out.

I'm not shy. I'm modest, but I'm very outgoing.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

I don't see myself as a diva at all.

I'm fairly introverted, but when I do stuff like a Maxim shoot, there's a side of me I call Gillian.

I care about how I carry and present myself.

If you're presenting yourself with confidence, you can pull off pretty much anything.

I get paralyzingly nervous a lot of times, so I tried bravado. The way I dress and carry myself, a lot of people find it intimidating. I think my whole career can be boiled down to the one word I always say in meetings: 'strength.'

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.

Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called 'walking.'

Style is the instrument you can pick back up when you want to regain some of the confidence you've lost.

The definition of swagger, in my opinion, is you have to have that arrogance, that confidence that you are the best out there at all times.

I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in.

You need a big ego to be an artist.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

I love attention. If I see a gang of girls? That makes me dance even more!

Be cocky. Walk into the Georgia Dome like you own it.

I'd like people to understand that I do have some personality.

A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you're prepared to take the risk of trying them out.

I think that when a person is insecure about who they are or who they want to be, then it translates on screen, and the choices they make are all about perception.

I have two bowls of confidence for breakfast each morning.