I had a period where I thought I might not be good enough to publish.

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.

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I’m not frightened by anyone’s perception of me.

Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it’s not like I am hopeless.

I was very blessed to have family and friends, but particularly family, who told me I was not only all right, I was just right, so I believe that my brain is a good one, and it’s lasting me very well.

Actors know what actors are insecure about – and they’re all insecure.

I second-guess and overthink and rethink every single thing that I do.

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

I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

I’m not afraid to look like an idiot.

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

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don’t know why he’s with me. I don’t know whether I’m good enough. But if I make him happy, then I’m everything I want to be.

Much publishing is done through politics, friends, and natural stupidity.

We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.

Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

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

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

I don’t even like showing my stuff to publishers and editors much.

You’re not going to say anything about me that I’m not going to say about myself. There’s so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I’m going to say it before they can. It’s the best policy for me.

I consider myself to have one of the greatest voices in the industry.

I’ve never been a very prolific person, so when creativity flows, it flows. I find myself scribbling on little notepads and pieces of loose paper, which results in a very small portion of my writings to ever show up in true form.

And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

It usually helps me write by reading – somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.

I have never been bewildered for long in any fight with our enemies – I was Armed with Insight.

I’m the greatest thing that ever lived! I’m the king of the world! I’m a bad man. I’m the prettiest thing that ever lived.

In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it.

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 walk tall; I got a tall attitude.

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

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.

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

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

True politeness consists in being easy one’s self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

I’m a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that’s never healthy.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

I’m not really concerned with portraying this tough warrior – I mean, that’s part of my job and I take that very seriously. But I don’t have anything to hide, and I’m not concerned with what people think.

That’s all I could ever hope for, to have a positive effect on women. ‚Cos women are powerful, powerful beings. But they’re also the most doubtful beings. They’ll never know – we’ll never know – how powerful we are.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

I always put myself out there. I’m not afraid to commit to something.

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you’re wonderful, then you start believing you’re fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!

Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don’t know who or what, maybe myself.

I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

What is true belongs to me!

I’ve never had writer’s block.

I want to thank The Beatles for almost single-handedly getting me out of writer’s block.

Actors search for rejection. If they don’t get it they reject themselves.

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.

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.

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

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

I don’t mind making jokes, but I don’t want to look like one.