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.

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

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.

Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I’d follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I’ve been very lucky.

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

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

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

I’m lucky that, despite all the bad press I’ve had over the years, the public still seems to like me.

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

I’ve been lucky. Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

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.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

100 percent a huge fan of Beyonce. If I see her, I will faint. I’ve met her before. I just get really nervous and quiet – I just shut up and bow down.

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.

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

I’ve been very lucky. I come from a very close family.

I’ve been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that’s kind of a religious belief. I mean, it’s at least a moral belief.

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they’re pretty, even if they aren’t.

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.

It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired.

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

The passive aggressive arguer comes armed with tricky tactics. They cannot take the risk that they might be wrong: their self-esteem is too intertwined with their opinions. It is more important to affirm their rightness, and sense of superiority, than to arrive at the truth.

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

We have an epidemic of insecure people in our society today.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.

I think that I’m perfect.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

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

I’m confident with my ability.

Few people realize that luck is created.

I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don’t have as many people who believe it.

To win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they’re good or there because they’re lucky.

Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.

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

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

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!

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

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

I’m very lucky. The public happens to like me. Maybe they like me because I use every opportunity to talk about injustice.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion’s heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

When I am talking to people who I feel don’t like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.

My husband says I look like a Q-tip.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.

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.

I’ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

I’m so nervous. I’ve always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.

One thing I have learned in my painful career as a gambler is that bragging when you get lucky and win a few games will plunge you into gloom and unacceptable beatings very soon. It happens every time.

One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn’t like you. Especially when you don’t know what you’ve done to deserve it.

The more people I reach, the more people there are that have opinions about me. Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

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

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

There’ll always be serendipity involved in discovery.

You tend to feel very hurt when people attack you and feel indifferent when you get praise. You think, ‚Of course they like it. They should like it.‘