Lou Williams Quotes

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

When I look at myself, I see a person who strangely lacks what I consider the ingredients of a personality.

I just feel like sometimes I'm a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It's not easy being me.

Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.

Apart from the fact that I've got a strange job, I do lead a fairly normal life. I do my own shopping. I don't feel constrained by who I am because of what I do; I often feel disappointed by my lack of ability. I get frustrated at myself, but I think everyone does.

I'm a combination between extreme insecurity and extreme confidence.

I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.

I am trying to impress myself. I have yet to do it.

Intelligent, successful, attractive people can be intimidating. They force us to hold a mirror to ourselves; we can be disappointed, jealous or inspired toward personal growth.

I was never my favourite subject.

It's tough being me.

I liked myself better when I wasn't me.

I can't say I've ever finished a film and been particularly thrilled with myself or patted myself on the back. And maybe that's what keeps me going, and that's a good thing. It speaks volumes about how I perceive myself.

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

Nobody walks this earth thinking he's better than I think I am - I think I'm great. At the same time, it's so obvious to me that I'm nobody.

You compare yourself to somebody who you think is a peer, and you can totally lose the plot, and not understand that you are nothing like them in the first place, and it was never you versus anybody.

I'll be me, but I don't like it.

I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.

I see pictures of myself and I always knew that what I was feeling didn't look like that guy in the pictures.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

So when I look in the mirror I'm driven by both vanity and fear.

It can get really messy inside my head, and it's usually just because everybody can get really self-centered at some point. And so what usually keeps me from quitting is that my reasons for quitting are just lame. I wouldn't want anybody else to talk to myself the way that I talk to myself.

I have a combination of self-love and self-loathing, just like most people.

Particularly in television, we can stereotype ourselves. You realize that we all have a lot of voices in our head. We have angry voices, we have voices of doubt, and we have moments of strength.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?