Sophie Kinsella Quotes

I've never had that concern of thinking of myself as stupid.

If the world thinks you're not good enough, it's a lie, you know. Get a second opinion.

I was always rather outspoken. I worried about what people thought of me but there really wasn't room for a lot of self-doubt.

I don't have nothing to prove.

There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing

I think that there are a lot of reasons to be insecure as an actress... But I don’t really have a perception issue. I’ve been pretty good about being who I am in the public’s eye.

It's rather difficult to think of anybody being really interested in me. But you know, man, I am totally together.

I have an inferiority complex, but it’s not a very good one.

I'm the type of person who feels I have to prove myself first.

Confidence is a reduction of your own interest in whether others are thinking about you and if so, what they're thinking.

It took me a long time to realize that to walk around without a certain amount of belief in myself, to walk onto a job with my tail between my legs, wasn't behooving anyone else.

I'd been around women who put me down, made me feel bad, or said things to fuel my insecurity.

I always had a belief in myself, and I started wondering if it was founded.

I wish I had more confidence.

I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't.

I don't have to prove anything.

I am not stupid. I don't think I have to prove that to anyone.

I've got nothing to prove to anyone.

Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them?

When you say, "I need more confidence," what you're really saying is, "I need those people over there to approve of me." That is the desire to control other people and what they think. The first person who figures out how to do this owns the world.

You been around enough to see that if you think you're it, you better check with me.

Laugh all you want. I know my own worth and don't need to prove it to someone who doesn't know theirs.

I lack self-confidence. I don't know whether I shall ever get it. Perhaps it is better to be unsure of your self, as I am. But it is very tiring.

And I realized that I’d tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.

If you don't think you're a winner, you don't belong here.