Mary Steenburgen Quotes

Only when you feel good about yourself will others look up to you.

Other people started taking me seriously before I took myself seriously.

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I'm special, but honestly, I still don't get it.

Confidence is on one side of the line, and self-belief is on another. People all think those are mixed up.

I'm not an insecure person, per se, but I just never saw myself as the girl who walks into a place and everybody goes, 'Wow.'

I was always rather outspoken. I worried about what people thought of me but there really wasn't room for a lot of self-doubt.

I know I've got to learn to believe in myself.

The older I get, the more I'm starting to believe in myself.

A man is always better than he thinks.

Self confidence for me is a fragile fleece.

I had low self-esteem.

Do I feel like I still need to prove myself? Absolutely. And I want to feel that way, and I like that.

I think everybody, especially every woman that you speak to, has gone through periods of their life where they feel uncertain or insecure. But I've been fortunate in my own life never to have gone through extended periods of crippling insecurity.

I didn't take myself seriously for a long time.

I'm not afraid of how I look in the mirror.

I've always had this fear in me. What would life be like if I wasn't Number 1 on television? But I've learnt to overcome that fear.

I don't think I really have the respect that I think I deserve.

Rejection doesn't always mean I'm not good enough.

Confidence is not, 'They will like me'. Confidence instead is, 'I'll be fine if they don't'.

How can I tell my daughter when she grows up to aspire to be what she wants to be if I am too scared to hop back in the ring because of what some people have said about me?

I am proud, but I'm annoyed with myself for not believing in myself enough.

Everyone around me has more confidence in me than I do in myself.

Live your life to its fullest potential and don't really care too much about what other people think of you.

If you don't like the look of my face, don't look at me! I'm the one who has to live with it.

I realized that everybody is a critic. They're going to say they hate you, they love you, they this, they that, but at the end of the day, no matter what, I have to be confident in myself as a man and an artist.