Benjamin Watson Quotes

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

When you become a slave to a public persona and don't feel comfortable without it, it becomes a shield, and it shouldn't come at the expense of your self-worth.

If my dancing is a disaster - it doesn't define me as a person.

Fame is damaging when people become reliant on it for their sense of self, and their identity, when fame is linked to how you see yourself.

I always wanted to be more validated as a human being, as a person, than I was as a player. I think that was a really hard balance for me.

There are always moments when I think about leaving skating, but when I think about that, I'm not very smart, and I'm not very pretty, and there's nothing else that stands out about me besides my skating.

I must be very clear in one thing... Being a pageant girl is not who I am or what defines me.

It's hard to see yourself as a princess because it involves a huge leap of the imagination and sort of requires you to believe you can be that, which is a scary, weird thing.

I have this theory- that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have.

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.

How you define yourself is a major issue for young people and adults alike.

I do not know at what moment in life, if ever, we realise that we are neither George Sands nor Juliets. Of course, if we are not beautiful, we recognise early that beauty is nothing.

If you do base your life on how many touchdowns you score, how many championships you win, then when you have a setback, then when you have an injury, you're not playing, or something goes wrong, your self-worth goes down.

I'm so happy that I finished college. Going into this crazy vortex of scrutiny is tough. If I was younger than I was now and I was going to fashion shows, I might have this distorted sense of self. I might rely on those cameras. Because when I was 18, I was half-baked.

If you identify yourself as a great football player, anytime anyone challenges that, you're going to have some kind of problem.

If I don't measure up as an American writer, at least leave me to my delusion.

I'm not the sad sack that people might think I am. But I think that if I didn't write and perform, I probably would be.

When I was 18, and my looks were what I was - and all that I was - it did feel very limiting.

You can't become what you aren't, or you will start feeling awful about yourself.

I think if you're young and you're being compared with a successful family member, it's really hard to maintain any sense of self-worth and credibility.

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

I really just want to change the way women think about themselves. A lot of young girls are quite lost.

I always felt like a fraud.

It's not something that I dwell on. I've never really had a problem with being soft.

The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.