Graham Potter Quotes

I was fortunate enough to have an upbringing that made me more accepting of who I am.

Believe in yourself and try not to take anything personally.

I've worked very hard at understanding myself, learning to be assertive. I'm past the point where I worry about people liking me.

You've got to be fine with who you are.

You want to feel, 'I know that character.'

The Funkasaurus character was great and it taught me about being humble, about the character, about not being concerned with what people think you should be.

Am I completely indifferent to criticism? No, not at all. But I know who I am and I have learned to respect and care for who I am.

I'm comfortable with myself now, and I understand how goofy I am, how stupid I can be, how emotional I can be, or how focused I can be.

I'm continually reminding myself that it's OK to have an opinion.

'Drag Race' has taught me a lot about how to form community, to take myself less seriously and lose some ego.

You, being yourself, help others be themselves. Because you recognize your own uniqueness you will not need to dominate others, nor cringe before them.

Its like he knows he's better than you, but doesn't look down on you for it because he knows it's not your fault.

The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor's shortcomings as he is of his own.

I've never hidden the fact that I used to be shy, even when I was 30. However, I might have been self-conscious on the inside, but I was never inhibited about my body.

I was really involved with other people's opinions of me, and it got heightened during my film career. I don't have any opinion, good or bad about it, it just was. It's not the way I feel now, and I think yoga has a lot to do with that.

The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.

There has to be a balance between power and vulnerability. That's something I feel I have in my own life, something I struggle with and - on a good day - like about myself.

We need to do teacher training to educate them about what temperament means. Shyness is painful and you want to help a child with shyness - but the underlying temperament of being a careful, sensitive person is to be honoured, valued and respected.

My husband and I grew up with parents who supported our passion, and we're grateful to them for that. It really helps you find your identity when you're younger. It helps you become a really well-rounded person, the more you can show from different perspectives. The arts show us empathy, which is so important.

I'm hard on myself, so I'm working on shifting perspective toward self-acceptance, with all my flaws and weaknesses.

I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.

My habit would have been to veer towards the dark - to prove I was something; edgy, or maybe to prove that I was cognisant of the dark side. Now, with age and confidence, I can say, yeah, that's true, but I am cognisant of the fact that people can do things well. And can be more loving than you expect.

If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.

At the level at which I work with people, their great talent is paired with great insecurity. Self-doubt is literally the twin of self-confidence. And I have to be there for both.

I can live with myself.