David Johansen Quotes

The beautiful thing is I have sort of grown up. I don't care if I'm highbrow or not anymore.

When you mature, you also get more secure about yourself. You see things differently.

I'm happier in my thirties. I feel clearer about who I am and less apologetic about it, and more accepting of my limitations and also more aware of the ways in which I'm capable.

I've gradually grown more comfortable with who I am and what I am.

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

I've got to where I've always wanted to be. I just feel more myself, and I've learned not to care what other people think. It's happened slowly, very slowly. But I did it.

Maybe it has something to do with turning 30. I don't feel as shy or nervous or self-conscious. I have more confidence that I can handle what life brings me. I don't feel scared to have an idea and express it.

Everyone talks about how, in your 30s, all of these growing pains transition into wisdom and you feel more self-assured and confident, but I think I had a bit of a jump-start on that at 27.

I feel pretty comfortable with who I am. After a while, if you're not, it's like, what are you hoping for?

Just be what you are. And I try to be my best self and be what I am and knowing what I am and be satisfied with that. And if people don't know it, maybe they'll eventually know it.

I think I've grown over the years and learned about who I am and what I can do and what I can't do.

One can always improve, but I know my strengths and I know that I am complete.

You need to be comfortable with yourself first and then decide what you want to achieve.

I stopped worrying about how other people define me a little bit ago. I used to care a lot. Now I just don't care that much. Really, what I'm worried about is, am I being the best me I can be?

I started coming into my own at 30, discovering what's important to me, not caring what other people think.

Me finding my confidence took me a while, but now I love that I went through everything I did before to get to where I am now.

It's good to be comfortable with who you are and what you do.

The greatest barrier to someone achieving their potential is their denial of it.

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

I'm not nearly as important as I used to think I was. It's a wonderful discovery.

I came to realize in my late 20s that my velocity is not going to grow so I had to learn to utilize what I had.

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.

Really, I was such a late bloomer, I really didn't learn how to be me until I was in my late '40s, which is when I started playing roles that were closer to me.

As I get older, I feel better about myself because I've done a lot of spiritual work on myself and balanced myself out, and so I feel more confident about myself as a person and as a woman.

I was 20 years old and felt I had a lot to offer, even to myself.