Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They’re no good at all.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

I got teased my entire school life. What they were picking on I don’t even understand.

I remember when I was in high school I didn’t have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

I was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one point.

I was never a boy magnet at school. There was always the girl all the guys liked and wanted to date, but it was never me.

I wasn’t a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know.

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn’t be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody’s ego, that’s it, game over.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

Don’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‚I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.‘ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

I don’t have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I’ve been too lucky and that I’m over-praised. It makes me nervous. I have this sense of being overrated.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

I never thought I’d land in pictures with a face like mine.

This dark diction has become America’s addiction.

I’ve always found, give me a pack of cigarettes and a couple of beers, and I do better with that than I do with torture.

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We’ve been so busy damning ourselves for years. We’ve done it all, and yet we don’t take credit for it.

I was called ‚Dumbo,‘ like the elephant, as a child because I couldn’t understand things at school.

A fit body gives you confidence. And there’s nothing more impressive than a great attitude, which you can wear on your sleeve. But you’ll have to remember the difference between being rude and being confident.

The post of honour is a private station.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self.

I didn’t think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I’m not put together like the other chaps.

I didn’t like the way I looked in pictures – when I saw myself on a digital camera, I was like, ‚Eesh.‘

Rap was my drug.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.

If you wake up whenever you want, and you slept for 10 hours, and you’re lazy getting out of bed, then I believe that affects your whole life in a negative way.

A company shouldn’t get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn’t last.

‚Harry Potter‘ gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

My husband says I look like a Q-tip.

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer’s disease where they slowly began to recover other people’s lost memories.

An alcoholic is someone you don’t like who drinks as much as you do.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

I will never say something I don’t agree with or believe in… even if the reward is massive!

I don’t see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I’m skinny, as if that’s supposed to make me happy.

Everybody likes a compliment.

It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases – one was Alzheimer’s, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimer’s.

I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me… All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

I don’t write so much now. I’m getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.

It undoubtedly feels nice when you are being appreciated and you get complimented by girls. Who doesn’t like that? Having said that, I don’t take it as any pressure.

The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

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

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o‘ the flatterer.

The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

I feel connected to my generation through the music, but I also fear for us. We’re in a very self-destructive state where we’re addicted to outside opinions and we all feel like we have fans.

I won’t let people write anything they want to about me.

All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.