Rozonda Thomas Quotes

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

I have a 15-year-old daughter who thinks that I always had this self confidence that I have now at the age of 60. And I always tell her that what she is going through - the low self-esteem as a teenager - that is a right of passage.

I was definitely a late bloomer and didn't really come into my own until I was probably in my 20s.

I've grown and I've matured, and I kind of like that.

I was very much a late bloomer. That's not to say that girls didn't express interest in me from time to time, but I just, I did not know how to respond to that.

I was a shy kid, a late bloomer. At 22, I was probably 16 emotionally.

It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.

Do I really need to prove anything to anybody? I don't feel that I have to prove anything. The only thing that I have to prove is to myself, that I have value.

It took me ages to grow into being a woman, into being happy with it.

In their 20s, women try to be somebody they're not and try to turn themselves into something different. Now I'm in my 30s; I'm very happy with who I am.

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.

I used to think of myself in terms of who I'd be if I didn't have this pesky old disability.

I think everyone has their awkward phases. Growing up isn't easy for everyone. I definitely had my awkward moments.

I was a pretty shy, lonely kid. I blossomed about age 17, when I went to college.

I'm okay with myself. I had times when I was 15 about 'Who I am?' and 'What am I?' and where I want to go, and that's behind me.

I guess I could say I'm an actor, which I am, but that sounds like I'm putting down being a movie star, which, let's face it, is what I've become to many people. For myself, I'm a guy who was very insecure from about age 14 until the day I hit my 30th birthday.

I'd never want to go back to being in my twenties or thirties. I was lost and confused and uncomfortable in my own skin.

High school was a complicated, confusing time for me. I wasn't confident, didn't know who I was, and was hiding from myself a lot.

I was a milksop as a kid. I had no confidence, no guts. I felt I was going to be someone else someday - someone who didn't have my weaknesses.

The first three years my hair was purple, I still was trying to convince myself that I hated the color purple.

In life, we are told to do or be so many different things and expected to fit so many different expectations; I think that's something I always had a hard time with.

I feel like at 18, you're half of someone else, as opposed to all of yourself. You're still figuring yourself out.

I feel like 2013 was one giant snowball of me being confused with my place in life and within the group. A lot of it was self-confidence issues, a lot of outside issues, and a lot of me questioning the future of what I was doing. And my mistake was letting all that influence me so that I wasn't the best I could be in life!

I remember in middle school and high school being so concerned with what everybody else thought. I was trying to be someone I wasn't. I wish I could've just let it slide and not cared about it.

Me finding my confidence took me a while, but now I love that I went through everything I did before to get to where I am now.