James McGreevey Quotes

I was so ashamed of who I was.

I was so ashamed of who I was. And I also felt like an outcast in gay society as well because I wasn't good-looking enough; my body wasn't good enough.

I spent so long trying to be other people, and it made me really deeply unhappy.

Whether at work, at home or in public, we have been trained to believe that who we are at the core of our being is often unacceptable. As a result, we work diligently to live up to - and sometimes down to - what others have made us out to be, whether or not it is an accurate reflection of who we are.

I think I'm great. I mean, I might as well come out and say it. Like most people, I have an ego and I'm in show business, so you have to have kind of a healthy, conflagrated ego to a degree. On the other hand, I'm consumed, like a lot of people, with self-doubt and loathing and guilt.

I don't have the feelings of self-worth that a woman should have... and that's been the center of a lot of my mistakes and a lot of my pain.

I've suffered from low self-esteem.

I don't think I am narcissistic. I think I have low self-esteem.

I suffer the terrible disease of low self-esteem.

There are a lot of people who give you the message that maybe you are not good enough, and the best thing you can do for yourself is to block out all of that noise.

I had low self-esteem.

I don't think I can be too hard on myself.

You can't become what you aren't, or you will start feeling awful about yourself.

We tell girls to be themselves, but then they have role models - sometimes too many role models - in popular culture who incarnate that kind of disconnectedness from oneself. We are taught to self-hate; we are taught to doubt. Our culture doesn't help us recognize ourselves as amazing beings without changing ourselves.

I don't care about me being vulnerable or embarrassing situations.

For so long, I was ashamed of my past, and I think that crippled me a lot in having confidence.

There's no reason to be ashamed of feeling good.

Oh, Mr. Thornton, I am not good enough!' 'Not good enough! Don't mock my own deep feeling of unworthiness.

My therapist told me I need to learn to love myself. It sounds easy enough, but really, how do you just wake up one day and learn that? It feels like something you should just do involuntarily, like swallowing or blinking, but now I have to work on it. It feels so forced. I mean, I know I went to a good school, and people tell me I'm smart and creative, but I don't KNOW that. I don't know how to make myself feel that.

I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.

I was very, very underdeveloped for my age, I hated what I looked like, so I thought everyone had gone stark raving mad.

The less satisfaction we derive from being ourselves, the greater is our desire to be like others.

I had low self-esteem. I just really wanted attention and love from somebody.

But as a young model, I never felt as beautiful as I looked.

I like myself a lot more than I used to. I had a very difficult time in my twenties especially. It was hard for me to look in the mirror and find something that I liked about myself.