Luvvie Ajayi Quotes

I do feel that I myself wouldn't have had, in my life looking back, the courage to go out and say, 'I'm a good actress.' So I think I'm one of those people that needed to be seen by someone else to see myself.

Ego is good.

Nobody walks this earth thinking he's better than I think I am - I think I'm great. At the same time, it's so obvious to me that I'm nobody.

I was never a pretty girl, so I wasn't the one to get the boy. I used to cast myself as a good sport. Sometimes I wonder if I do that too much with roles I play, because if I'm absolutely truthful, I quite like being the best friend, or the supporting role, and actually I ought to gear-change and make myself the leading role.

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

When I started to trust myself to be an actor, and to be considered that way and consider myself, that is when people started to see me in that way because that was the truth then, as opposed to me being a stunt girl going, 'Please see me as an actor, please see me as an actor!' when I didn't see myself that way.

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

I don't think of myself as the champion too often, honestly.

You got to believe in yourself. Hell, I believe I'm the best-looking guy in the world and I might be right.

If you gave your inner genius as much credence as your inner critic, you would be light years ahead of where you now stand.

I like when people know exactly, have a good sense of themselves, and know exactly what's good for them, I admire that, but I don't have anywhere near that kind of perspective on my own.

So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.

Confidence is a reduction of your own interest in whether others are thinking about you and if so, what they're thinking.

I'm 5-feet-9, I have a deep voice, and I have a way with a line. What can I do about it? I can't stay home waiting for something different. I think it's a total waste of energy worrying about typecasting.

I am not someone who throws around the word 'self-esteem.' It is a fictional description.

It's one thing for other people to see potential in you, and it's quite another for you to understand that and see it in yourself.

I don't always understand my worth.

Before all this happened, I always used to see my stammer as being a negative, all my life, but then when I went on 'Pop Idol,' and the first time I saw it on television, it was really, really bad, but also it made me stand out; it made people remember me. So for the first time in my life, it worked to my advantage.

The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.

I don't have the confidence to be a personality.

The first step is you have to say that you can.

It took me a long time to realize that to walk around without a certain amount of belief in myself, to walk onto a job with my tail between my legs, wasn't behooving anyone else.

Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

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.

My ego's not the kind that says, 'I want to be an actor and be accepted as that.'