Jerry Van Dyke Quotes

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful, then you start believing you're fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!

I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off.

Am I really cool? You're telling me I'm cool? Well, that's good to hear.

I don't read reviews. I refuse to have my ego inflated or deflated by someone I don't know.

I'm not that bothered about press nights as an actor or, particularly, by what people say about me, because I see myself as a reasonably small cog.

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

I used to not be confident. My father certainly didn't add to my confidence. When I was 17 or 18, I was voted the most beautiful girl in England by the association of press photographers. When they called Daddy for a comment, he said, 'I'm amazed. She's a nice looking girl, but nothing special.'

I get why people didn't like me, or don't like me, because I have an arrogance.

I can't help feeling that I am not a very important person, and being treated like one gives me strange feelings.

Personally, do I feel like an All-Star? I don't think so.

I never thought I'd be good enough. I really didn't. There's probably some fans out there who say I'm still not good enough, and that's OK.

I do not care to listen; obloquy injures my self-esteem and I am skeptical of praise.

I don't wake up each morning saying, 'Oh, wow, it's me. I think I'm the cat's meow. I'm the best.'

I'm not insecure, but I'm not like, 'Hi, I'm confident.'

I'm not worried any more about changing people's view of me.

I cannot be so bad when everybody is so fond of me.

I thought I was the coolest kid in the world, so I wound up being the coolest kid in the world.

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

I never like photos of myself in the beginning. I live with them for three months, put them in a drawer, take them out and look again. I hate the way I look, but of course it's really not that bad.

I think I'm cool. That's all that matters.

Well, I'm clearly not ugly.

Lots of us when we're children believe 'oh well, if the world knew us as we really are, they'd know what wonderful, clever, brilliant, charming people we really are.'

I find it very hard to take myself seriously.

And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else.

I do not walk around imaging myself to be intimidating or smart.