Christina Ricci Quotes

I am just like you and everyone else. I am trying to live my life as best I can.

I just have to be myself. I'm not perfect, and I'm going to make mistakes; I might say the wrong thing. I have to be responsible to my community, and I feel like I am, but then I have to not be so hard on myself.

If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good, you're not going to know yourself very well. If you got it, flaunt it.

I don't know how smart I am. I just try to be what I am. I hope I'm modest. I think that's a desirable trait.

All the work I do is personal, so the good stuff and the bad stuff that you see in there is all good stuff and bad stuff that I have, and part of the journey, for me, has been to embrace these things that I find embarrassing about myself: my stubbornness, my ego, my maudlin-ness - these things that I see myself do, and I go, 'Oh, David, stop that!'

There are times where I'm like, 'I wish I can do this' or 'I wish I can be normal like this,' but with my life, I try to keep it normal.

I'm trying to show people that I'm a person, and I deal with the same things as you guys, and I'm trying to make the best of it.

I stopped worrying about how other people define me a little bit ago. I used to care a lot. Now I just don't care that much. Really, what I'm worried about is, am I being the best me I can be?

I'm just trying to be the best Doug Baldwin I can be.

I am how I am. I cannot explain it well, but I don't feel the nicest person, on the football pitch or in life, I'm just myself.

If you can't laugh at yourself, then how can you laugh at anybody else? I think people see the human side of you when you do that.

I can consider myself my audience, and I'm not that weird. I'm fortunate in the things that I like, most people like.

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.

I just live my life how I live as a person. I certainly am not, like, a saint or an angel by any means. I'm not anything like that. But I live just how I live. I mean, I have a little paranoia, but that's about it.

What you are comes to you.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

I'm hard on myself, so I'm working on shifting perspective toward self-acceptance, with all my flaws and weaknesses.

I really don't know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn't build my self-esteem, and it doesn't help me grow me at all.

Some people are more fluid than others at just being themselves and recognizing what's good about themselves.

Many introverts feel there's something wrong with them, and try to pass as extroverts. But whenever you try to pass as something you're not, you lose a part of yourself along the way. You especially lose a sense of how to spend your time.

I'm a very open person, very self-deprecating. I accept my flaws.

Nobody's perfect, and to try to pretend you're perfect is an exhausting fool's errand.

I'm under no illusion that there are things about me that I'd like to change. I just accept who I am, and I'm proud of it.

If you think dealing with issues like worthiness and authenticity and vulnerability are not worthwhile because there are more pressing issues, like the bottom line or attendance or standardized test scores, you are sadly, sadly mistaken. It underpins everything.

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.