Chaz Bono Quotes

I'm angry because I was so scared for so many years about just being myself.

The thing that helped me come to terms with performing was an anxiety, a desperation for acceptance. There was never enough positive motivation in my life.

I haven't met a woman without insecurities.

Half of my anxiety is about whether people are going to like me.

Growing up, I naturally embraced who I was, but I was always battling with myself. So I spent half my time being proud of being a woman and the other half completely hating it.

If you don't embrace who you are and accept who you are, you won't be able to live a happy life.

I'm at a place in my life right now where I'm very happy, very content. I'm finally OK with the idea of who I love, who I want to be with.

Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-brake on.

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

I'm insecure about things. I'm not afraid to say it, though. Even when my publicist is like, 'Go on the red carpet,' I don't wanna go.

We are all anxious to be accepted. But if you have a strong mother and father who tell you that you don't have to dress a crazy way, or hang out with people who are looking for trouble in order to be loved and accepted, then half the battle is over.

Bob Smith from Brooklyn is a guy who sometimes gets hung with problems and fears. Wolfman Jack is a happy-go-lucky guy who knows how to party. The challenge of my life has been letting more and more of Bob Smith go, becoming the Wolfman on an almost full-time basis, while still taking care of business.

I talk to women's groups all over the country and see women struggling with this. The fear of not being accepted, of being different, of not having a man, all make it hard for a woman to do what she really believes is right for her.

Look, I don't care if anyone likes me when it comes to my work. But I can be massively insecure in other parts of my life.

I was so worried that people wouldn't like me or my story.

I have my share of insecurities, hopes and fears.

I thought, transgender people are much worse off than I am. That's why they're willing to risk everything to be who they are. But the older I got, the harder it got to stay in my body.

I've always struggled so much just to appreciate myself.

I used to think of myself in terms of who I'd be if I didn't have this pesky old disability.

I know that when I attached my sense of identity a little too closely to my work that I might be distracting myself from feelings of unworthiness. It wasn't the number of hours I worked or how bloodshot my eyes were that defined the difference. It was something internal.

Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.

I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.

I hated the reflection in the mirror. I wanted so much to be someone else... I thought that if I was thinner, the rest of my life would change.

Beauty was never really my trip. Maybe those roles are attracted to me?

All my life I had believed that unless I was perfect I would not be loved.