Jack Black Quotes

I figured out the only way to get women in high school was not to care that much. Now I realize that you have to live your life and eventually they'll be attracted to you and you'll be attracted to them and it will just happen. I think. I think.

As I get older, I'm more relaxed and less concerned with what people think of me

I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.

I'm not afraid of a rant, am I? I've got to that point where I've just become a woman; I think I've just grown.

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.

Confidence comes with maturity, being more accepting of yourself.

As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.

Self-esteem, the kind that comes from finding the sweet spot between a healthy fondness for yourself and healthy self-skepticism, tends to get harder to come by the older we get.

I think that I was being much more uptight about those things before. I feel like I really don't have to prove anything at this point other than what I'm doing.

Nowadays, I could not care less about making other people like me. I'm a good person, I don't need to do that anymore.

I'm a lot more grounded now, a lot more settled in my skin.

Granted, I've changed internally as I've gotten older - I take it easy, I know when to stop and take care of myself, I laugh much more and with my belly and soul - but this comes from the confidence and acceptance that comes with maturity.

Maybe it has something to do with turning 30. I don't feel as shy or nervous or self-conscious. I have more confidence that I can handle what life brings me. I don't feel scared to have an idea and express it.

When you mature, you also get more secure about yourself. You see things differently.

Everyone talks about how, in your 30s, all of these growing pains transition into wisdom and you feel more self-assured and confident, but I think I had a bit of a jump-start on that at 27.

I'm happier in my thirties. I feel clearer about who I am and less apologetic about it, and more accepting of my limitations and also more aware of the ways in which I'm capable.

I think as I've gotten older and the things I've gone through, I'm not as concerned about what everybody thinks.

I sometimes buy albums that I don't like now, but that I know I will like. Coming out was the same thing. In high school, I thought, 'I know I'm going to have to deal with this, but I'm not confident enough now.' But when I finally did, my whole life changed.

I've grown as an actor. I am more confident within my art form. I have also grown as a person. I am more compassionate, generous, and less judgmental.

I think the main thing which boygenius and I talk about ad nauseum, is that I feel like I just apologise for myself less.

It took a long time, and a lot of years, for me to get comfortable with myself, like the way I am now.

I think once I kind of got to a place of self-acceptance, looking past all the insecurities that I have, I've really grown so much as a person.

I used to worry about being cool. Now I realize that I genuinely don't care.

I think when you get to that point in your life where you're the first to laugh at yourself, you're at the best place of your life.

I don't have any regrets. If I could have talked to my 19- or 20-year-old self, I would have said, 'You're going to be fine. It ain't that serious!'