Ruby Dee Quotes

I've always very earnestly tried to do my best, so I just have to trust that and forgive myself for being fallible.

You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

Love myself I do. Not everything, but I love the good as well as the bad. I love my crazy lifestyle, and I love my hard discipline. I love my freedom of speech and the way my eyes get dark when I'm tired. I love that I have learned to trust people with my heart, even if it will get broken. I am proud of everything that I am and will become.

When I started to trust myself to be an actor, and to be considered that way and consider myself, that is when people started to see me in that way because that was the truth then, as opposed to me being a stunt girl going, 'Please see me as an actor, please see me as an actor!' when I didn't see myself that way.

When people show you who they are, believe them. I carry that with me a lot. It has served me well.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.

I think I'm better than all the people who are trying to reform me.

It's not hard to keep up the image we chose. It's not hard to stay yourselves.

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.

I always feel like I'm so boring, but I don't get bored with me.

Every one of us have things that we believe about ourselves when nobody else is looking, nobody else is listening, nobody else is monitoring what we're doing. We believe things about ourself.

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.

I think I'm happy with who I am. I don't know if I learned that from other girls or just people in general.

Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.

I've never been more normal than I am now.

I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.

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 never saw myself as beautiful. I can look back and see it now, but then? Never.

I have no control over what people think of me but I have 100% control of what I think of myself, and that is so important. And not just about your body, but so many ways of confidence. You're constantly learning how to be confident, aren't you?

There's absolutely no way you can feel the freedom to embarrass and humiliate yourself unless you have finally recognized that your identity is in someone other than yourself.

I've got my feet firmly on the ground, I can't see life changing too much. I reckon more girls will talk to me at college and more people will look at me, but they know me for who I am.

A man is always better than he thinks.