Douglas Fairbanks Quotes

Even though I'm in the industry and I act and all this stuff, I still suffer from self-esteem issues... from the way that I look or the way that I talk... just nitpicking at myself.

Rather than setting yourself a New Year's resolution, why not simply pick a reason for hating yourself for the next 365 days? Takes less time, and it's easier to stick to.

I'm very hard on myself and I have too many issues.

I promote my own self-hatred.

People can very quickly have a very poor self-image. It doesn't take much.

I have no idea where my pathetic nature comes from. If I thought about it too long, it would depress me.

I'm not going to lie: I still have days when I walk by the mirror on my way to the shower and think, 'Oh God, I didn't just see that!'

I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.

Social media, despite its reputation as the ultimate agent of self-promotion, actually feeds on self-loathing.

I suffer the terrible disease of low self-esteem.

I'm horribly self-critical.

We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid?

Underachiever. Asthmatic. Excuse-maker and fistic faker. My opponents and some other haters have called me all of those things.

Whenever people say nice things to me, I think they're just saying them because I'm standing right in front of them. Even when I read articles that say good things about me, I forget about them right away. When I read about people pointing out my flaws, however, I think about them a lot.

I was just unhappy - and lonely at times. There was always that other side of me nagging away, bringing me down. The anger. Even after good games, I just went home and looked at the bad points. It was just nuts.

Everywhere I look, someone is telling me, 'You're not good enough,' or, 'You can't do this or that.' You can only hear that so many times before enough is enough.

The hardest part is just hearing people saying that I won't amount to crap, and that I'm going to be a bust.

I have struggled with self-esteem issues since my teens, but it's clear in my first long-ago diary that I didn't start out that way. I acquired my low self-esteem. I learned it.

The worst thing you can do is find your flaw and continually highlight it.

I had a routine of waking up, going on Twitter, searching for the worst things I could about myself.

I'm not great at taking compliments because I always find the thing I could do better.

I have a very good talent at finding out exactly what it is about yourself that you don't like and then keep bringing it up.

My eyes are too big, my nose is too flat, my ears stick out, my mouth is too big and my face is too small... my body is thin as a clarinet and my ankles are so skinny that I wear two pairs of bobby socks because I don't want people to see how thin they are.

I always assume I look better than I actually do. I'll feel pretty good about myself when I leave the house, then I'll see a picture and think, 'Crap, I had no idea that's what I was looking like.'