Russell Peters Quotes

There are a lot of people who give you the message that maybe you are not good enough, and the best thing you can do for yourself is to block out all of that noise.

Rejection doesn't always mean I'm not good enough.

No one goes unscathed, we all go through things. We just can't let people's nasty words become our beliefs about ourselves, you know?

When I was a kid, nobody told me I was good-looking. I wish they had. I would've had a better time.

There is so much pressure to be thin, and you constantly compare yourself to others. But confidence is something that comes with age and experience - it has to be earned along the way.

So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.

I don't have the best body in the world, but I know for a fact that I have a really good voice.

I don't have the best self esteem; mine wavers month to month, but I know how to pick myself up.

I've suffered from low self-esteem.

I feel like I need to give people a note with the book that says, 'I'm OK, no worries!'

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

I feel like I have a healthy self-esteem.

I had low self-esteem.

We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be?

Beauty at any age really does come from within.

I'm good enough; I'm smart enough. Self-affirmation is where people list their core values. These are things that really make them who they are.

You have to believe yourself to be the centre of the world, or you believe nothing. You start to treat yourself very badly.

You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading.

You just can't afford to care that much about the negative things people say about you. You just can't!

Everyone has different issues, and I think for a great deal of women, those issues are self-esteem. And for me, I really wanted to understand it and get through it because I didn't want to be an actress afraid of getting older. I refuse to live that way.

I think everybody, especially every woman that you speak to, has gone through periods of their life where they feel uncertain or insecure. But I've been fortunate in my own life never to have gone through extended periods of crippling insecurity.

I'm not afraid of how I look in the mirror.

I have insecurities, but they don't consume me. It doesn't bother me if my hair's a mess or if I have a bad skin day. I just don't look in the mirror!

Ever since I started using guys, I feel so much better about myself. I feel so much more powerful.

I was in so much emotional pain as a young girl that whatever distracted me from how I felt about myself was fine by me.