Mika Quotes

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

I've never been intimidated by anyone.

I've been brought up to be polite and I'm not very confrontational, but even I have walked away from situations and thought, 'If only I'd said or done that.' Well Mr Hyde says and does that.

If you sit and wait to feel like you are the most confident person in the room, you are probably going to be left by yourself.

Don't be scared of what people will say.

But she wished she had had the guts to go up to him and say hello. Or possibly break his legs, she wasn't sure which.

You can't let yourself be pushed around. You can't live in fear. That's no way to live your life.

You can't let yourself be pushed around. You can't live in fear. I mean, some people do live in fear. You can't live in fear. That's no way to live your life.

I was always much more shy. All I knew was that I loved to act. But I don't know about the other part of it. I'm not sure I had the chutzpah to go and prove yourself.

I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.

You have to feel confident. If you don't, then you're going to be hesitant and defensive, and there'll be a lot of things working against you.

Oftentimes, people stay where they are in life simply because of fear. But do you know that fear isn't reality? It's only a thought in your mind.

I missed so many opportunities along the way to do what I wanted to do because I didn't have the confidence to tell myself, much less anybody else, 'Yes, this is the business I wanted to be a part of, and not feeling that I had the talent... and letting it go all the way through Notre Dame and then through two years of Navy service.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

I don't understand why people say that I am full of courage. I feel terribly nervous.

In my everyday life I'm a little bit nervous and not particularly brave. I feel like if I can be completely brave in my work then I'm doing something right.

I never admitted what I wanted to do for a career to anyone until I was 26. I wish I'd piped up at 18.

I wish I was harder; I wish I didn't care so much about being the nice girl all the time because a lot of the time people can take kindness for weakness, so I wish I had a little bit more 'oomph' in me.

I tend to do things that I'm very frightened of. That's what I do.

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

I wish I had less fear about creating my own parts.

A lot of us are secretly scared, for whatever reason, and so we get in our own way. But if you really want something, you have to ask for it.

I say, 'Be brave. Do it even if your ankles shake, because they will.'

Whenever I get stuck on something, I'm like, 'What would I do if I wasn't afraid? What would I write if I wasn't afraid? What would I say in this situation if I wasn't afraid?'

I was always extremely determined, but I was also quite timid.