Jacob Anderson Quotes

My parents never pushed me to be an actress. You can come from a family of actors, and sometimes there have been families that grow you up as an actor, but this wasn't my situation. It's very important to find your own way because it's something you then have to confront yourself.

For me, I want my kids to find their way. If they're interested in something, I want them to try it out.

I think what I would say to my younger self, and probably to younger, just starting-out writers is that a lot of times you're just afraid to put yourself out there, and it's uncomfortable because it's working up the courage to do something, to push yourself to do those things.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

My father taught me you have to believe in yourself and run on your own track.

Graduate school is a really supportive environment, but in a way, it was only when that support vanished that I flourished.

If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

It's easy to say young people should believe in themselves, but the number one thing is recognizing that it's a journey, that you have to build confidence in yourself.

I didn't understand that I could sing until I was like 11 or 12. My mom heard me singing around the house and she said, What are you doing? You really can sing! So then I started going to school and singing to the girls.

Now, everything I do, I do because I want to. And I believe the best is yet to come.

Nothing is stopping me from doing what I love to do.

Believe in yourself, and find ways to express yourself, and find the discipline to keep growing.

Once you trust in yourself, you automatically want to go outside of yourself.

I guess when you are left on your own, you find your true potential. I remember my father never came to our school even once.

To find the courage to do what I want to do for myself has been hard.

I think that you're only going to get better if you take time to better yourself, not because someone says you should get better.

I will always back myself to achieve what I can achieve. It is all down to me.

I try to back myself as much as possible.

Every day, I feel I can do more things - not as a character but as myself.

Just remember that when I went to New Japan, nobody knew who I was. And I've done okay.

Do not follow anyone else's opinion of your capabilities; find for yourself what you're passionate about and chase it!

There are some people who are naturally talented, who just have it coming out of their ears; they just sparkle with talent. Some people - and I put myself in this category - don't fit a mould. I always looked a lot older. I was as tall as a giraffe, even at ten, but I found my place, and I really worked at it.

I think I'm most proud of the fact that I was able to overcome the insecurities that were going to keep me from living my dream, which was just learning to turn off those little voices in your head that tell you you're not capable of doing something.

If you look inside yourself, and you believe, you can be your own hero.

My thing is "You don't need anyone else to empower you; you can empower yourself." Whether it's a pep talk or putting on a good shade of lipstick, whatever you need to do, do it, but be yourself. You absolutely don't need someone else to tell you that you're good enough.