Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Quotes

I'm a strange person - I don't really get rewards out of how many hits I have on YouTube. I love it, and I'm grateful, and it's important to me. But does it equal peace within me? No, it doesn't.

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.

I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.

It's easy to love yourself when you feel good enough, when you feel special enough, when you're loved enough, when you have enough money, and you're appreciated.

If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.

People confuse fame with validation or love. But fame is not the reward. The reward is getting fulfillment out of doing the thing you love.

What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.

Thank God I'm very satisfied with the way God created me, and I wouldn't change a thing.

Fame doesn't matter; people approving of you doesn't matter. And if it does matter, you're in store for something very difficult and painful.

As long as I'm happy, I don't care about accolades or anything else.

If you're not someone who has a natural and effortless love for yourself, it's hard to let go of your desire to please other people, and that's really not an ingredient for a happy life.

I must let go of my need for the world to love me.

It's nice to be included in people's fantasies but you also like to be accepted for your own sake.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.

I'm just happy. I'm just me right now.

I mean, no one asks beauty secrets of me, or 'What size do you wear?' or 'Who's your couturier?' They ask me about really deep things and I love that.

I didn't feel I had to prove anything more.

I am happy and content with and within myself.

It's really about being pleased with yourself.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

I like the way my heart beats, I like the way I think; I don't need or want anything to change that.

I'm amazed if people are happy in their own skin.

Everybody is looking for validation, no matter who you are, and I think that's a need of the human condition - to look for affection or recognition or validation.

If you are not happy with yourself, even the loftiest achievements won't bring you much satisfaction.

Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.