Antonio Villaraigosa Quotes

I'm searching, as we all are, for ways to feel good about myself. Certainly, looking in the mirror doesn't do it!

What I did for a living for so many years separated who I was from what I did.

Maybe some people look at me and just see a footballer, or a black footballer. But I am much more than this. I tell my best friends all the time, 'If you look at me as a footballer, and not as Little Kouli, and not as your friend, then I have failed in life.'

I have that normal male thing of valuing myself according to the job I do.

When it really comes down to it, the job you do is more important and is more representative of who you are than your sexuality or anything else that you have going on in your life.

I'm worried about looking like a bad person when, in fact, I try to be a good person. I don't like the public image that I've been dressed with and it worries me.

How do you measure your value?

Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't know me, I think they do themself an injustice. Because, as a whole, I think I'm a good person.

I don't really care what other people see me as. I seriously don't. I've always worried about what my opinion of myself is. And I've always thought that it carries most weight. So I don't care what other people's opinion of me is or how they view whatever I've said or done.

I always thought I should base how good I am on how good I feel I am.

I think what's most interesting about me is the work that I do.

Any description of a person that comes from the outside is very hard to deal with. People don't like being summarised. It's nice to receive a compliment, but it makes me feel a bit uncomfortable.

If you're a kid who's not necessarily attractive, and you don't have money, and you're not hip and cool, chances are you're not going to feel good about yourself and want to be an actor.

So many people define themselves by what they've accomplished or not accomplished.

We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, 'Am I good?'

When you lose your hair, it has an impact on confidence and your overall self-esteem whether it affects your career or your love life.

On days when I do not work, I am working on my image.

It is better to look good than to feel good.

I need my career. That's what validates me.

I work because I think that I wouldn't feel good about myself unless I was contributing.

When someone says to you, 'Oh, I don't take a good picture,' what they mean is they haven't come to terms with how they look. They take a fine picture, it's just that their image of how they think they look is not in touch with the reality.

I feel, as a person, very uninteresting.

I have to feel good on the inside to look glamorous.

Evidence suggests jobs are crucial not only to economic well-being but also to self-esteem.

I always thought I was good. That's why it was so frustrating when other people didn't agree.