Self-esteem quotes

“- Taylor Vaughan: Careful of what? Ok, I could win this thing in flourescent lighting, on the first day of my period, cloaked in T.J. Max. Ok? My mother was prom queen in '71, my cousin: prom queen in '82, and my sister would have been prom queen in '94 if it wasn't for that scam on the Conway Bed tour bus, okay? I am a goddamn legacy, all...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jodi Lyn O'Keefe - Taylor Vaughan
Gabrielle Union - Katie

“I feel so insignificant... then again, I always feel insignificant.”

Trace Beaulieu - Crow T. Robot

A person should not believe in an "-ism", he should believe in himself. I quote John Lennon, "I don't believe in Beatles, I just believe in me".
Matthew Broderick - Ferris Bueller

“I'll go first because I'm the prettiest.”
Christine Taylor - Marcia Brady

“I always thought it would be better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody.”
Matt Damon - Tom Ripley

“You think you have free license to be insulting? Believe me, you have not. You think you're superior, but you're quite an ordinary man.”

Lionel Barrymore - Otto Kringelein

“- Tenderheart Bear: You're doing great, Alice!
- Alice: Thanks to my friendly flamingo.
- Flamingo: I just happen to be the best in the business.”
Jim Henshaw - Tenderheart Bear
Tracey Moore - Alice in Wondeland
Alan Fawcett - Flamingo

“- Student: You run off to England and you teach in some school and you really think you're something, don't you?
- Mark Thackeray: I am something - everyone is.”
Sir Sidney Poitier - Mark Thackeray

“- Peerless Pauline: I've waited so long to find someone like you.
- J. Cheever Loophole: Oh, someone like me, I'm not good enough for you, eh?”
Eve Arden - Peerless Pauline
Groucho Marx - J. Cheever Loophole

“All my life I've been taking shit from inferior people. No more.”
Nick Nolte - Ray Hicks

“That's Elizabeth Carlson. I discovered her. That's right. I've found her, she was on the streets. Without me, she didn't even exist.”

James Russo - Nick

“I can do without anyone. I have my own soul! My own spark of divine fire!”
Rex Harrison - Professor Henry Higgins

“- Max: All I know is that when I'm not with you I'm a total wreck.
- Nora: And when you are with me?
- Max: I'm a different kind of total wreck.”
James Spader - Max Baron
Susan Sarandon - Nora Baker

“- Norma: Dad thinks he's some kind of big hunter.
- Pearl: Well, he killed a deer once.
- Norma: That was with the car, Pearl.”
Carla Gugino - Norma
Eliza Dushku - Pearl

“Walk in with a big laugh. Don't look worried. Start off with a couple of your good stories to lighten things up. It's not what you say, it's how you say it - because personality always wins the day.”
Dustin Hoffman - William 'Willy' Loman

“I bet if I was President they wouldn't have killed me.”

Philip Anthony Hopkins - Richard M. Nixon

“- Isaac: You call that guy that you talk to a doctor? I mean, you don't get suspicious when your analyst calls you at home at three in the morning and weeps into the telephone?
- Mary: All right, so he's unorthodox. He's a highly qualified doctor.
- Isaac: He's done a great job on you, y'know. Your self esteem is like a notch below Kafka's.”
Woody Allen - Isaac
Diane Keaton - Mary

“- Lt. Amos: You think you are so hot 'cos you get in all the clubs, heh? Just because you have sex with great looking women.
- Ford Fairlane: You got to admit those are pretty good reasons.”
Ed O'Neill - Lt. Amos
Andrew Dice Clay - Ford Fairlane

“I can do it because I can do anything!”
Gabrielle Anwar - Sonora Webster

“Winning this Grammy is a great honor. And to those who are not up here with me now to share it with me, Max Devlin, my manager, Jerry Nadler, a blizzard, I have only this to say: It was a long, hard pull, man, and I got nobody to thank but myself.”
Julie Budd - Stella Summers

“I began to think this idea of inferiority was an even bigger problem for us than what the Afrikaans were doing to us. At first a black man had to believe he had as much capacity to be a doctor, a leader, as a white man.”
Denzel Washington - Steve Biko

“I've never been able to relieve me-self in the presence of another. Otherwise, I'd have joined the army.”
Donal Donnelly - Freddy Malins

“I've got the two nicest aunts in the world. Of course, you've got the nicest nephew in the world, too.”

Cary Grant - Mortimer Brewster

“The reason people treat me like I'm nothin' is because I'm nothin'.”
Patrick Swayze - Johnny Castle

“- Orphan: Just take your colors off and we'll let you pass.
- Swan: We don't do that kind of stuff.”
Paul Greco - Orphan
Michael Beck - Swan