Jimmy Butler Quotes

Of course, I'd love to be regarded as a voice of authority.

I don't feel like I'm influenced by anybody, but I feel I'm definitely becoming more a leader.

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

I'd rather be the king of kids, than the prince of fools.

It's always good to walk in a room and know everybody kind of looks up to you because I guess I've earned it.

I want to get more and more sophisticated. I'm ready to go from being a kid to being a king.

I feel a lot of people listen to what I have to say.

I'm lucky. As soon as I open my mouth, people see I know what I'm talking about, and when I leave the room, I think most say, 'She's OK.'

I gravitate towards gravitas.

I think I don't have as much to prove now.

Success did change me. You don't want it to, but it does.

I don't want to say never, but I hope I don't become that 'take me seriously now' guy.

I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.

Things can change only through strong personalities. I am not very good at supporting ignorance and mediocrity, so maybe this leads to arrogant gestures and arrogant responses. So, nobody's perfect.

Self-esteem, the kind that comes from finding the sweet spot between a healthy fondness for yourself and healthy self-skepticism, tends to get harder to come by the older we get.

Girls that I use to try to talk to, now they want to talk to me.

Maybe I am a little bit guilty of trying to convince myself that I am cool to this point - even today. But I am so much more healthy than I used to be in my twenties, because I was not accepted at all.

People want to hear what I have to say and respect what I say.

In order to be a lieutenant, you've got to have authority in your voice. No matter how young your face looks, you've got to let your guys know that you're in charge.

As a younger actor you want to be approved of, you want to gain respect, be admired. All of those things. To say: 'This is me playing this character. And aren't I fantastic!' I don't feel that so much now.

Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.

You start to look at it with a deeper respect and I think that deeper respect for what you do builds more self-respect.

I feel like I've reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I've been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where I've been, and beyond it.

Maybe I'm a little more confident than I used to be, but not much.

I think now I'm being taken a little more seriously. That's pure conjecture on my part.