Tory Lanez Quotes

For many years, I didn't even like the idea of doing a one-person play. Public speaking got me past that. I've always been good at public speaking, but I never really enjoyed it. Then I started to really enjoy it, and that's made all the difference.

In my everyday life I'm a little bit nervous and not particularly brave. I feel like if I can be completely brave in my work then I'm doing something right.

If I could borrow anything from Miley, it would be her stage confidence. For me, that's just going to come with time.

I feel like more than 80% of the world wouldn't get up in front of 40 million people and dance on national television, and if I have the confidence to do that then that's a step ahead in my life for me in terms of personal goals. I will gain a lot of confidence on all aspects right there.

By the second time I sang by myself in school, I just realized that I was more in control of my environment than I had ever been before.

By middle school, I said to myself that it's time I begin to speak. I joined the choir, not because I wanted to. I forced myself.

Performing didn't feel comfortable until I was about 17. I loved to sing, but I always said I would never perform because I was too scared.

Once you trust in yourself, you automatically want to go outside of yourself.

What I've found is that every time you have that uncertainty, if you face it, walk through it, you grow as an individual and gain confidence.

When I was younger, I barely talked. I was scared of people. I had to learn how to cultivate that confidence.

Something I would have never thought that I could have done before is dancing in front of thousands of people. It changed how people view me in a negative and a positive way.

It's important that you are not embarrassed when you try something new.

I started when I was in college because I was shy and thought it would be a good way to break out of that.

It was probably years before I was confident enough in stand-up that I was able to talk about the things I wanted to talk about, the way I wanted to talk about them.

Now I can walk into a room full of people I don't know and do my job. That's quite a massive thing to learn, I think.

I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people. Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody.

The truth of the matter is that I used to be much more - as it were - shy. Now I don't care!

I'm still shy - I'm no good at my children's parent-teacher conferences, and I'm slowly learning how to ask for what I want. But I now know that I have a reserve of courage to draw upon when I really need it. There's nothing that I'm too scared to have a go at.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

I didn't start singing until I was 16. I was afraid to sing in front of people.

I think what I would say to my younger self, and probably to younger, just starting-out writers is that a lot of times you're just afraid to put yourself out there, and it's uncomfortable because it's working up the courage to do something, to push yourself to do those things.

I didn't know if I had the music for it or if I could pull off the larger concert experience. Then I realized if I can just continue to be myself, I'll be all right.

I've played so many jobs where I'm fearless, but it's far from me. I wish I were like that in real life.

Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure.

I would like to do theatre because it scares me, and I think you should do things that scare you.