Some guys look better as they get older.

When you’re young, you’re very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.

I often joke that 100 years from now I hope people are saying, ‚Dang, she looks good for her age!‘

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

I’ve never lived my life in the opinion of others. I believe I’m a good person. I believe I’m a good mom. But that’s for my kids to decide, not for the world.

I will not be concerned at other men’s not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

Every man should know, if you’re comfortable and you like it, you should do it. Everyone always worries about what the girls think, what the guys think. If you like it, do it.

I’m sick of the tabloids‘ saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don’t like it.

It would be great to be 105 and still making films.

I don’t blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up a little bit, they’ll realize there’s more things to life than living out your rock & roll identity so righteously.

I believe that I’m one of the best in the world at what I do, and that’s all I’ve ever wanted to be.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health.

I don’t have to show anything to anyone. There is nothing to prove.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

You don’t carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.

I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don’t believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of ‚Who do you think you are?‘

I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be ‚sexy,‘ even before I knew what the word was.

What is true belongs to me!

But ever since I was a kid, I was always the winner.

You don’t have to be somebody different to be important. You’re important in your own right.

I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

When someone bestows something on you, no matter how true it is, when someone says, ‚Sexiest Man Alive,‘ I’m honestly going, ‚Thank you. Right on.‘ For me, it’s never canceled out anything, it’s never made me go, ‚Does this make me less talented of an actor?‘

I feel matured in a way that I’m happy about. I’m at this other stage in my life – and it’s not a bad thing at all.

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well.

I think dress, hairstyle and make-up are the crucial factors in projecting an attractive persona and give one the chance to enhance one’s best physical features.

I think it’s OK to be confident in yourself.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

I think that I’m perfect.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

If you hear a voice within you say ‚you cannot paint,‘ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

It was really hard for them to intimidate me. They felt I was intimidating. One of the growers had a name for me: I think it was ‚dragon lady‘ or something like it.

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

I want kids to know: Don’t wait for somebody to come along and tell you you’re special. Because that may never happen.

A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people are good, some are not, and you can’t be naive.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

It’s hard to be humble, when you’re as great as I am.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

I trust my taste. I trust it completely and I always have done, and I’ve always thought it isn’t that different from everybody else’s.

I don’t even know how to speak up for myself, because I don’t really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.

I’m not sure what you need first – the players believing or others believing in them – but in the end, both have to think it.

I just think it is important that you realize, that you’re the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you’re libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

I thought one should have the attitude of ‚What do you care what other people think!‘

My philosophy is it’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people’s minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

I’m a decent cook; I’m a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

Most people don’t grow up. It’s too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That’s the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don’t grow up.

I’m odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet.

We don’t mature momentarily, but over the long-term.

I would say things like ‚I am the greatest! I’m pretty! If you talk jive, you’ll drop in five! I float like a butterfly, sting like a bee! I’m pretty!‘ When white people heard me talking like this, some said, ‚That black man talks too much. He’s bragging.‘

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

I know I’m stronger in the songs than I really am. Sometimes I need to hear it myself. We all need to hear those empowering songs to remind us.