Emma Chamberlain Quotes

Pageants were a platform for me, and they helped me get to where I am today. You suddenly stop being just another girl, and people want to listen to what you have to say.

When I was kid, I couldn't wait to take the world by storm, to be a woman - beautiful, powerful, confident, sexy, thoughtful, and deep. All the things I knew I was inside... even though I was only 4.

The world doesn’t need more people playing small. It’s time to stop hiding out and start stepping out. It’s time to stop needing and start leading. It’s time to start sharing your gifts instead of hoarding them or pretending they don’t exist. It’s time you started playing the game of life in a “big” way.

Life is not a popularity contest. Take the hill, but first answer the question: What is my hill?.

I used to just think about what my fans wanted all the time. But it just started feeling weird to me. I want to just show everyone who I am and stick to my vision. I have to trust myself.

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

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

At the Brooklyn Ethical Culture School, we learned to express ourselves, and I've been expressing myself ever since.

I think with acting, since I became an actor... I, as a person, have become more confident and I have really come out of my shell somewhat... and back to myself, you know.

As a kid, I was always very shy growing up - I wasn't very good at articulating my thoughts or my feelings. Now that I'm older, I found acting to do that. So it's been an amazing way to sort of express who I am.

I look forward to proving something to myself and others.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.

We all need a firm sense of identity.

I can't assume that people see me the way I see myself. I have to show them. But I can't do it in a way where it's too much, where it's rude. I feel like when you're a king, you lead. And I just see myself as a king, or as something more than just a regular human being.

I would say that I'm finding my voice in more ways than one.

Women who have strong identities, who know themselves, really inspire me.

I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performers I admired and started just being myself.

By the second time I sang by myself in school, I just realized that I was more in control of my environment than I had ever been before.

The older you get, the more yourself you can be and the less worried you are about what other people think.

Kids don't like what they don't understand, and judo was always my social outlet. I always felt really socially awkward, and I couldn't speak very well when I was younger. When I was doing judo, it was something that I could understand and someplace where I felt that I belonged and fit in.

Like most people, I've grown a lot more sophisticated in my style choices. I know myself and what suits me better now than I did when I was much younger and feel more comfortable in my own skin.

Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place.

Art helped give me confidence.

I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.