Madeleine L'Engle Quotes

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

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

Nobody walks this earth thinking he's better than I think I am - I think I'm great. At the same time, it's so obvious to me that I'm nobody.

I know that I sound self-satisfied, and I know that I've got an ego, but I don't have an ego problem.

You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.

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've given up trying to understand what people think about me.

One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.

If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been a proof that you were not.

You have to think you're the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you're not.

I don't mind people thinking I'm stupid, but I don't want to give them any proof.

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.

Do I think well of myself, think myself a nice chap? WEll, I am afraid I sometimes do (and those are, no doubt, my worst moments).

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

He had an opinion of himself, I think, that was too high for his own good. Or maybe it was the reverse. Maybe it was a low opinion that he kept trying to erase.

I don't wake up each morning saying, 'Oh, wow, it's me. I think I'm the cat's meow. I'm the best.'

I'm not insecure, but I'm not like, 'Hi, I'm confident.'

I am no more humble than my talents require.

I don't wake up with some sense of fabulosity.

I thought I was good before I had any right to. But I think you got to feel that way. You got to think that. I wasn't delusional. I knew I had talent.

Some days I'll be like, 'I didn't do anything great today,' and I'll be bummed. And some days I'll wake up, and I'm like, 'I am the dopest woman to exist on Earth'.

I'm sexy literally and I know it. I'm sexy because I know it.

You can definitely notice a girl who has confidence versus one who's thinking, 'How are they judging me?'

I'm not cocky. I'm not arrogant. I know my value.

I don't think of myself as the champion too often, honestly.