Michael Beasley Quotes

I think confidence comes with age and experience, honestly.

Along with age comes more confidence, so it kind of works out.

Also, as I've gotten older and more mature, I've become much more comfortable in my own skin. After 25 years of doing stand-up, that's reflected onstage.

In your 30s, you are very aware of who you are and what you're confident in.

Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up.

My habit would have been to veer towards the dark - to prove I was something; edgy, or maybe to prove that I was cognisant of the dark side. Now, with age and confidence, I can say, yeah, that's true, but I am cognisant of the fact that people can do things well. And can be more loving than you expect.

Even though I'm over 35, I feel like so much more of a leading lady than I did when I was 30.

I know who I am and what I do.

And I don't think that success is going to destroy me at this point in my life, like I used to think.

You know, once you have been through a certain amount of things in life, you definitely grow more comfortable with yourself.

But now that I've matured, I've realized that - at the end of the day - what's really important is the work, not what people think of me.

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.

When you're old, you are more certain of who you are, and that may be a good thing or a bad thing.

I know who I am by now. And I am my own brand.

You come to a point in your life when you really don't care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself.

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.

When you're young, you worry about what other people think. The older you get, the less that matters.

My friends have to remind me that it's OK to own the fact that you're good at something. I think it'll just come with getting older.

I've been around the block a couple of times, and the guy I am now is the guy I like to be.

Because I'm in an adult world and I'm really working, my age is just a number. It's not really who I am.

Believe it or not, I was all fully rounded by the time I was nine years old.

If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good, you're not going to know yourself very well. If you got it, flaunt it.

I think that as you get older, you learn to live in yourself more securely.

Many years ago, I used to say, 'I haven't lived long enough to be great.' Now I don't say that.

I'm more confident now than I've ever been. As you get older, you have to be.