Self-esteem quotes

“You know, ever since we were little, I would get this feeling like... Like I'm floating outside of my body, looking down at myself... And I hate what I see... How I'm acting, the way I sound. And I don't know how to change it. And I'm so scared... That the feeling is never gonna go away.”
Hailee Steinfeld - Nadine

“Who'd ever think a man like me, a total zero, would wind up with you, also a zero?”

Nick Kroll - Uncle Fester

“I like you too, Freddie. Come and find me when you decide to like yourself.”
Aaron McCusker - Jim Hutton

“You can have all the tools in the world but if you don't genuinely believe in yourself, it's useless.”
Ken Jeong

“Would you fuck me? I'd fuck me. I'd fuck me hard. I'd fuck me so hard.”

Ted Levine - Jame Gumb

“It's one thing for other people to see potential in you, and it's quite another for you to understand that and see it in yourself.”
Daisy Ridley

“If you know that you came through when people are counting on you, you’ll be able to face anything.”
Ed Skrein - Dick Best

“- Stu: Do you remember that part of NeverEnding Story where Atreyu walks through the oracle gates and those guys, big statue things, can see a warrior's true internal nature and that super scary knight just vaporizes because deep down he doesn't believe in himself?
- Vic: Yeah?”
Kumail Nanjiani - Stu
Dave Bautista - Vic Manning

“You're good, baby. I'll give you that. But me? I'm magic.”
Colin Farrell - Bullseye

“- Walter Burns: Sorta wish you hadn't done that, Hildy.
- Hildy Johnson: Done what?
- Walter Burns: Divorced me. Makes a fella lose all faith in himself. Gives him a... almost gives him a feeling he wasn't wanted.
- Hildy Johnson: That's what divorces are for!”
Cary Grant - Walter Burns
Rosalind Russell - Hildy Johnson

“Hud saw something in you that you don't even see in yourself.”

Chris Cooper - Smokey

“I feel like 35. At 35 you're old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!”
Sir Michael Caine

“I know we're not perfect, but the safest hands are still our own.”
Chris Evans - Steve Rogers

“I think, head up and shoulders back. Not only does it make you look taller and thinner but it gives you confidence and boosts your self-esteem.”
Shelley Lee Long

“Your low self-esteem is just good common sense.”

Cloris Leachman - Evelyn

Look at this sweetheart. Tell me this ain't a movie star. What're you, kiddin'? They gotta make me a movie star. Hey. As soon as they see this hair they're gonna say "Sam, get over here. Get in front of these cameras. There's a hundred million women out there just waitin' to run that hair between their legs".
Holt McCallany - Sam Whitemoon

“In my old life, I longed for someone to see what was special in me. You did, and for that, you'll always be in my heart. But what I really needed was for me to see it. And now I do.”

Halle Berry - Catwoman

“- Charlie: Is it true? You were really a Hawk?
- Gordon: Yeah.
- Charlie: Peter said you blew a really big game once.
- Gordon: Yeah, well, Peter's right. It was the last game of the state finals. We were tied in the end of the third period. I get a penalty shot. I go in, I triple deke. I fake the goalie right out of his pads. The puck's headed...” (continue)(continue reading)
Joshua Carter Jackson - Charlie Conway
Emilio Estevez - Gordon Bombay

“- Dr. Alex Durant: You will be remembered as one of the greatest space scientists of all time.
- Dr. Hans Reinhardt: I've never doubted that.”
Anthony Perkins - Dr. Alex Durant
Maximilian Schell - Dr. Hans Reinhardt

“One shouldn't be too hard on oneself when the object of one's affection returns the favor with rather less enthusiasm than one might have hoped.”
Nigel Hawthorne - Rodney Fraser

“- Dracula: Do you think of me as special?
- Cindy Sondheim: Yes, of course.
- Dracula: So how can you think of yourself as nothing, when I love you?”
George Hamilton - Dracula
Susan Saint James - Cindy Sondheim

- Captain Amelia: I don't much care for this crew you hired. They're... how did I describe them, Arrow? I said something rather good this morning before coffee.
- Mr. Arrow: "A ludicrous parcel of driveling galoots", ma'am.
- Captain Amelia: There you go, poetry.

Emma Thompson - Captain Amelia
Roscoe Lee Browne - Mr. Arrow

“- Katarina Stratford: You don't always have to be who they want you to be, you know?
- Bianca Stratford: I happen to like being adored, thank you!”
Julia Stiles - Katarina Stratford
Larisa Oleynik - Bianca Stratford

“Half my life is over and I have nothing to show for it. Nothing. I'm a thumbprint on the window of a skyscraper. I'm a smudge of excrement on a tissue surging out to sea with a million tons of raw sewage.”
Paul Giamatti - Miles

“- Abby: If I was a guy, I think women would, like, line up to go out with me. I'm smart. I have a good sense of humor. I make a great living.
- Noelle: I'd fuck you.
- Abby: Thank you, honey. I know you would.”
Janeane Garofalo - Abby
Uma Thurman - Noelle