Self-esteem quotes

“Do I smell the revolting stench of self-esteem?”
Jon Lovitz - Mr. Marks

“- Helena: You pathetic creep!
- Valentine: Rocks and logs can bite like dogs, but words will never hurt me!”
Stephanie Leonidas - Helena
Jason Barry - Valentine

“My dearest Peter, everything I have done, I've done because I love you... and I hope that a day, I can come back for you and explain everything, don't doubt me but most importantly don't doubt yourself... you are extraordinary.”

Lewis MacDougall - Nibs

“It seems to be a common denominator with a lot of comics, this low self-esteem thing.”
Ray Romano

“We don't do, we just are!”
Macaulay Culkin - Michael Alig

When the editor of Playboy told I'd won the Playmate of the Year, the first thing out of my mouth was "Are you sure?".
Mariel Hemingway - Dorothy Stratten

“I have spent almost my entire life with people smiling at me. And laughing at my jokes. And telling me how special I am, and how great I am, and how nice, and smart. And right now, I don't know if any of that was true. Maybe it was all some kind of an act.”
Katie Holmes - Samantha Mackenzie

“Gotta keep it spicy! You gotta puff out that chest, swing that tail, eyes narrowed, like some kind of crazy love hawk!”
Will.i.am - Pedro

“My sweetie, you are so much more than you can see.”

Maria Canals-Barrera - Connie Torres

“Always remember your promise to me. Never let nobody or nothing turn you into no cripple.”

Sharon Warren - Aretha Robinson

“You have to believe in yourself. And you have to, down deep within the bottom of your soul, feel that you can do the job that you've set out to do.”
William Castle

“We're not fighting the 5th Wave. We are the 5th Wave.”
Nick Robinson - Ben Parish

“I take full responsibility for sleeping with her. I had very low self-esteem. I had to compete with somebody. It happened to be my son.”
Ashton Dane - Talk Show Father

“- Mark Darcy: What on Earth are you doing?
- Bridget Jones: Getting dressed.
- Mark Darcy: Why're you dancing around in that tent business?
- Bridget Jones: Because I don't want you to see any of my wobbly bits.
- Mark Darcy: Well, now that's a bit pointless, isn't it? As I happen to have a very high regard for your wobbly bits. In all...” (continue)(continue reading)
Colin Firth - Mark Darcy
Renee Zellweger - Bridget Jones

“- Question Askers-Screening: A lot of people have accused you of being narcissistic.
- Sandy Bates: No, I know. People think that I'm egotistical and narcissistic, but it's not true. I... As a matter of fact, if I did identify with a Greek mythological character, it would not be Narcissus.
- Question Askers-Screening: Who would it be?
- Sandy...” (continue)(continue reading)
Robin Ruinsky - Question Askers-Screening
Woody Allen - Sandy Bates

“Men knew their worth, knew who they were.”

Tommy Lee Jones - Gene McClary

“Let's send Greg Stillson to the United States Senate - and mediocrity to hell!”
Martin Sheen - Greg Stillson

“Buddy, my whole life I listened to ya' bellyache about your luck. Well, you are where you are because of who you are.”
David Paymer - Stan

“- White Rabbit: You saved Wonderland, Alice. I thought it was you that made the garden bloom.
- Alice: Oh, I could never do that. Only someone special could make flowers bloom.
- Princess: Do you want to know a secret, Alice? You are as special as you think you are.”
Keith Knight - The White Rabbit
Tracey Moore - Alice in Wondeland
Alyson Court - Princess

“It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.”
Sally Field

“- Nancy Jason: What did they do to you?
- David Jason: They taught me what I needed to know: that they don't respect me, that I don't deserve respect.”
Yvette Heyden - Nancy
Jeff Goldblum - David Jason

“- Cecil Parkes: Rachmaninov? Are you sure?
- David Helfgott - Adolescent: Kind of. I'm not really sure about anything.
- Cecil Parkes: The Rach 3. It's monumental.
- David Helfgott - Adolescent: It's a mountain. The hardest piece you could everest play.”
Sir John Gielgud - Cecil Parkes
Noah Taylor - David Helfgott - Adolescent

“Don't ever think that the world owes you anything, because it doesn't. The world doesn't owe you a thing.”
Jennifer Lawrence - Joy

“- Sage: So you used to like men?
- Elle: I always liked women, I just didn't like myself.”
Julia Garner - Sage
Lily Tomlin - Elle Reid

“I make a habit out of doing things that people say I can't do: walk through fire, waterski blindfolded, take up piano at a late age.”
Jason Statham - Rick Ford