Madeline Zima Quotes

I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.

I don't care about the money. I just need, as an actor, to do as many different things that I can to make me feel good about myself.

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.

Honor is a gift a man gives himself. You can be as good as anyone that ever lived. If you can read, you can learn everything that anyone ever learned. But you've got to want it.

When I am myself, I am happy and have a good result.

You have to grow! You grow as a person, and then you will grow in business.

I'm not trying to be as good or better than anybody; that's not how I work.

I'd just like to prove to myself that I'm all here and all together and can get the best out of myself. I'd also like to prove that to a couple of other people.

I know who I am. I don't have to brag. I know what I contributed. I know what I did. You think you can do it better? Hey, go right ahead. The stage is yours.

There are the jobs you get that do something for your confidence, like, 'I can do this with my life' kind of thing. And then, there are the jobs that maybe bring a certain level of awareness about you as an actor, where other people feel like they can hire you.

As an actor, to be able to experiment and grow and be pushed, it's been phenomenal for me, and it's given me confidence to move forward.

I can only do my thing and do the best that I can.

For a long time, I didn't have a balance in terms of my worth and my market value; I was just a very talented person who hadn't done any work that truly demonstrated my talent.

I have nothing to prove to anyone but myself.

Once I got to Leicester, I just wanted to prove myself.

I'm not just a pretty face. I want to pursue something.

I am not the type who'd enter the best schools just to prove myself.

I've always felt a strong urge to prove myself.

At the end of the day, nobody has higher expectations for me than myself. I don't really try to prove anyone wrong anymore as much as I try to prove myself right.

...true self-esteem comes from competence, not the other way around.

We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves.

Maybe with boxing and good focus, I can fix myself and make my mother proud.

My best investment, as cliched as this sounds, is the money I've spent developing myself, via books, workshops and coaching. Leadership begins within, and to have a better career, start by building a better you.

It's good to be comfortable with who you are and what you do.

You are richer for doing things.