Michel de Montaigne Quotes

Every breath I take becomes deeper, and I become more confident of myself without my crutches. The lies I've filled my body and soul with aren't needed anymore. They're not welcome. I choose to live, not just exist.

Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.

I love acting because it's empowering. It empowers me.

Hot Lips changed a lot in eleven years. Initially, Margaret Houlihan behaved as though a man were the only thing that could complete her life, and she didn't see what richness her life contained. She gained a lot of self-esteem through the years, and she came to realize that what she did, what she offered, was valuable.

When I started wrestling and then turned into the Evil Queen, I created this character who I needed in my personal life. This woman who is strong, intelligent, confident, empowering. That's what I needed in my personal life.

My character, Charlotte, is very confident, and I try to be more like my character in real life. Not that I'm not confident, but I've really found my personal growth through work.

One thing I have is that I have never been afraid to expose myself in a way, and I really think I got that from my mother. That's a great gift you can give to a child, that they have confidence in their abilities.

Great things happen when you have the courage to be yourself

They try to paint the picture that I was this downtrodden, ugly girl who was unpopular in school and in life, and then I got this role and now I’m awesome. But the truth is that I’ve been awesome, and then I got this role.

Everyone in me is a bird I am beating all my wings

There’s a greatness in not caring what people think

If man puts his honor first in relying upon himself, knowing himself and applying himself, this in self-reliance, self-assertion, and freedom, he then strives to rid himself of the ignorance which makes a strange impenetrable object a barrier and a hindrance to his self-knowledge.

It was a very vulnerable time going from being insecure about my body and who I am to becoming comfortable with me. I had to tune out what the hell everybody else had to say about who I was. When I was able to do that, I felt free.

I quickly learned that you don't have to be incarcerated by suffering, and that, in spite of the dysfunctional nature of your family, you are an individual in full possession of your life.

I believe I'm enough, you know what I'm saying?

You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go.

You have to recognize that deep within your soul, you know who you are - and let [the criticism] go right by you. If you're reacting to it, you're letting it get to you.

Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence.

The size of the problem is never the issue -- what matters is the size of you!

What I find powerful is a person with the confidence to be her own self.

When I passed forty I dropped pretense, 'cause men like women who got some sense.

How can you lose when you're doing you?

Success takes the courage to know who you really are and be comfortable with that.

For many years, I used to pray as an act of power, but that was before I had 100% faith in myself.

Hope and belief. I'd always wanted hope, but never believed that I could have such an adventure on my own. That I could own it. And love it. But it happened.