Cilla Black Quotes

Not everybody's confident their whole life.

Being an actress hasn't made me insecure. I was insecure long before I declared I was an actress.

I couldn't work my way into being a good-looking guy.

I am an insecure person. I have my own insecurities about lots of things, but I am pretty secure as an actor.

How you perceive yourself is how others will see you.

I think that there are a lot of reasons to be insecure as an actress... But I don’t really have a perception issue. I’ve been pretty good about being who I am in the public’s eye.

For most of my life, I've thought of myself as pretty cool.

What I do now defines who I am as a woman and how people see me; they don't see me as a little girl.

I am not someone who throws around the word 'self-esteem.' It is a fictional description.

I'm very confident in how I project my personality.

I'm not worried any more about changing people's view of me.

I'm not a great beauty. That's not me.

I don't always understand my worth.

I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.

I thought I was the coolest kid in the world, so I wound up being the coolest kid in the world.

I don't have the confidence to be a personality.

Everyone is insecure. I think, really, it comes from, like, a desire to want to be in control of how you're represented.

Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.

Confidence is on one side of the line, and self-belief is on another. People all think those are mixed up.

In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.

Very early on, you figure out that you put your self-esteem in the hands of strangers. There's a different commodity. There's the Helena Bonham Carter that everyone thinks they know, who really has nothing to do with me. But you just have to let that go.

If my accomplishments frighten someone, it's nothing to do with me - that's to do with them. But the men who are in my life see me as a person - as a woman - not as a character I've played.

I must be very clear in one thing... Being a pageant girl is not who I am or what defines me.

I feel very comfortable - literally and metaphorically - in my skin.

I wasn't attractive when I was growing up, and I don't think I am now.