Zoe Bell Quotes

However, I don't by any means suggest that I'm always playing myself.

I think it's really important for young audiences to see that you don't have to apologize for being angry when you're angry, and you don't have to apologize for standing up for yourself when people are pushing you around.

I'm okay in my skin, you know... I'm okay with who I am.

I don't hate myself anymore. I used to hate my work, hated that sexy image, hated those pictures of me onstage, hated that big raunchy person. Onstage, I'm acting the whole time I'm there. As soon as I get out of those songs, I'm Tina again.

I have the potential to be very strong and powerful, sometimes angry, sometimes passionate. I also can be shy and withhold that because I am afraid. I don't want to freak anybody out with my passion... So I struggle with that all the time.

I've learned to accept who I am.

Now I've come to a place where I believe that anger doesn't really make me a better actor.

I've always thought of myself as a strong person. However, it's taken me a while to fully find my voice.

My confidence comes from the realisation that, actually, the best you can be is you, learning to accept who I was, what I wanted, and that I was more than my body.

I felt more comfortable playing other people than being myself, when I was a kid. And then, the tables turned. Through my performances, I've become more comfortable with who I am, and then I just bring more of myself into the people that I play.

I'm not ashamed of who I am.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

I think I have a very nice demeanor, but at the same time, when pushed, I will freak out. I have a backbone, but I don't feel like I'm terrible about it.

You just need to be accepted for who you are and be proud of who you are and that is what I'm trying to do.

For a long time I thought I could deal with my anger and hostility on my own. But I couldn't. I denied that it had affected me, and yet I was so frantic on the inside with other people: I needed to be constantly reassured.

I am who I am.

I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger.

All through life I've harbored anger rather than expressed it at the moment.

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

I've made peace with the fact that the things that I thought were weaknesses or flaws were just me. I like them.

There's my personal life, my sensitive side, and then me as a performer, sexy and energised and fun.

If you express yourself too much, you're considered weak.

I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place in my music for my anger as a way of compensating for not having a mechanism to express it in my everyday life. So I've been trying to be more true to myself, and that helps me to chill out a little bit. But politically, uh-uh. No.

Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?

I need to learn to be more assertive.