Alexander Smith Quotes

A lot of people got something to prove. If I had something to prove, I proved it already, so why do I have to go showboat? Like, I don't say I got the hottest song in the world. And, personally, I think otherwise.

I didn't feel I had to prove anything more.

I'm not competing with anyone, or begging someone to love me. I feel like I'm loved and I deserve to be where I am.

Don't wait for someone else to validate you. Validate yourself.

I'm such a perfectionist. I always feel overpraised or whatever. In the abstract, I know I'm a good person, a good professional. But it's nice to be noticed a little bit, ain't it?

Positive self-esteem is the quality of simply saying thank you and accepting any value that is attributed to you by others.

I don't need to get any validation by someone else who sits next to me in first class. If you think a seat in first class makes you a star, then you're not one.

You can be pleased with nothing if you are not pleased with yourself.

Screen credit is valuable only when it's given you. If you're in a position to give yourself credit, you don't need it.

I never think I have to prove something.

When someone bestows something on you, no matter how true it is, when someone says, 'Sexiest Man Alive,' I'm honestly going, 'Thank you. Right on.' For me, it's never canceled out anything, it's never made me go, 'Does this make me less talented of an actor?'

When you have a lot of success you don't need vanity any more.

I don't have anything else to prove.

People say to me, 'You're a genius; you're great.' I don't know if I'll ever feel that way about myself. Some things, I feel like, are better left for other people to say, and I'm just not into, like, tooting my own horn or bragging or anything.

I've never felt the need to show that I am either clever or tall because I'm not.

I don't need to prove myself through competition anymore.

People often confuse self-respect with arrogance. I believe that there is a very thin line between the two. Balance between the two is often what leads to happiness.

I don't think about, 'Oh, I'm finally getting my respect,' because I don't care about this.

I don't have nothing to prove.

One of the good elements of old age is that we no longer have to prove anything, to ourselves or to anyone else. We are what we are.

And if you ever need self-validation, Just meet me in the alley by the railway station

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

The ego needs recognition. The spirit does not need to thank itself.

The stats win nothing. I'm still sexy. I'm still great.

No one can be trusted who isn't thrilled with himself at least now and then.