William James Quotes

Ego is good.

When someone tells me that I'm not real, I say to them, 'Well, what about me isn't real?' I have not changed my figure. This is who I am.

I've always felt that I was a star. I always knew that I am a star.

The picture you have of yourself, your self-esteem, will have a profound effect on the way you see the world and the way your world sees you.

My mother always taught me, even my dad, just never let other people's opinions of you shape your opinion of yourself. And I never have and I never will.

I've learnt that you are who you are, and in the end, if you don't believe it, then no one will.

I am not someone who throws around the word 'self-esteem.' It is a fictional description.

It's one thing for other people to see potential in you, and it's quite another for you to understand that and see it in yourself.

I thought I was the coolest kid in the world, so I wound up being the coolest kid in the world.

No one can figure out your worth but you.

At some point, the pride has to be a part of the whole day-to-day oeuvre. It's part of who you are and doesn't need to be discussed anymore.

I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others define my worth.

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am.

I don't care about my image.

If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.

I don't think of myself as a powerful person.

It's all about, no matter where you come from, that you can be who you want to be and achieve what you want to achieve. I want people to learn to love who they are. Because that's the hardest thing in life, being able to see yourself the way other people see you.

I didn't take myself seriously for a long time.

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.

Believe me, I have met so many people who absolutely have no reason to feel important, and they do!

I do feel that I myself wouldn't have had, in my life looking back, the courage to go out and say, 'I'm a good actress.' So I think I'm one of those people that needed to be seen by someone else to see myself.

People have been so busy relating to how I look, it's a miracle I didn't become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm.

If I'm not comfortable in my own skin or confident in who I am, then I'm going to pick parts based on how people are going to view them, not based on what I find challenging or entertaining.

In order to be somebody you have to hold even your shadow in high regard.

I like who I am, and am puzzled to find that not everybody shares this opinion.