Marcus Smart Quotes

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful, then you start believing you're fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!

I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off.

I'm very self-critical.

I used to not be confident. My father certainly didn't add to my confidence. When I was 17 or 18, I was voted the most beautiful girl in England by the association of press photographers. When they called Daddy for a comment, he said, 'I'm amazed. She's a nice looking girl, but nothing special.'

I don't like reading good things about myself. With the criticism and the negative things, I always think that makes me better.

I've always known I was good, but if other people dont think so, it can hurt your confidence.

When I get hate mail, I get really down on myself, and I read it to my mom, and my mom is like, 'So what? Who cares? These people don't know you, so you can't take the praise or the hate to heart.'

It's human nature that if you get 20 positive comments and one negative one, you're going to focus on the negative. We all do that. It can be something that drags you down. It's easy to get bogged down with it, but I try to concentrate on the good things.

I find it very hard to take myself seriously.

And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else.

I'm usually very critical of myself.

I looked on IMDB, at the message boards there, and someone had posted something about a sheep having more talent than me.

From the first time someone says, Who do you think you are? we learn how to repress.

I am critical of myself.

My feelings about myself have been terrible.

You can't control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity will get you nowhere.

I don't like myself, and I don't like to be looked at.

I'm very critical of myself.

You build up the opponent, and you lose confidence.

What the heck did people see in me?

If you live for the compliments, you'll die by the criticism.

One of the biggest things I struggle with is people's opinions. As much as I would like to say that I don't care, I see those comments. And sometimes it affects you more than others, or may completely change your mood.

I never thought I'd be good enough. I really didn't. There's probably some fans out there who say I'm still not good enough, and that's OK.

A lot of people keep saying that I am insecure and I keep trying to axe my co-actors' roles, but that's rubbish!

I do not care to listen; obloquy injures my self-esteem and I am skeptical of praise.