Angela Rayner Quotes

When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.

I am proud of who I am, and nobody's going to steal that.

I've spent my whole life being told I have a face like a horse. You are just what you are, aren't you?

It used to hurt when people ran down my films. I used to feel inferior. I wouldn't go to parties or award functions because my cinema is not considered good enough. But now I keep my head high, and I am proud of what I am doing.

At 26 I felt myself a victim rather than a victor in the realm of pictures.

I support anyone finding their worth despite being told they can't do something.

When people criticize me, instead of putting my head down, it gives me energy to do even more.

MS doesn't define who I am.

Ego is good.

There are no makeovers in my books. The ugly duckling does not become a beautiful swan. She becomes a confident duck able to take charge of her own life and problems.

I was always told that I was too small, too skinny, too slow, not tough enough, and I never ever believed what people told me.

I was too old, too young, too fat, too thin, too tall, too short, too blond, too dark - but at some point, they're going to need the other. So I'd get really good at being the other.

There's always going to be someone who doesn't like you, but what can they do?

I've worked very hard on my self-esteem, and I know my value.

I think it's the same for everyone in any walk of life - if people put you down, you want to prove a point.

Even going back to the haters, it's messed up what they say, but that's made me stronger, and it's built me into who I am today, and I am completely fine with that.

I don't want to see myself as this sad, disabled girl. I know that. I don't want other people to see me as that, either.

I see it as someone who's been burned doesn't have to be put in this box where they can't be glamorous - I try and live that vision all the time and push those stereotypes away. That's all you can do.

I made mistakes, I know, but I'm not the ugly duckling that some people seem to think.

I've learned to ignore the negative people and just be a living example of confidence and self-love.

I've been an underdog my whole life with the shape that I have and the way that I look. But once I get in the ring it's a whole different ball game.

If, through my own personal journey, I can inspire someone else to self-love, that would be the biggest accomplishment.

No matter how talented you are not everyone is going to like you but that's life, stay strong

The only thing that I know is that, growing up, I came across stumbling blocks, and I always said to myself, 'If I ever get into a position to do something about this, I would like to, so that somebody does not deal with what I went through.'

I've let a lot of things go, and obviously football is one of them. I think the hardest thing to let go is your self-image. That's what I'm working on now.