John Hickenlooper Quotes

Not having a father is big. You need guidance. I know, personally, when my father died, I needed guidance; I needed somebody to show me how to be a man, how to grow up, basically how to do the right thing.

Humans have voids, and you need things to fill voids... I didn't have a dad to fill that male model void, so when I heard Eminem or freaking seen Dave Chapelle, that's what I gravitated to.

When you come from where I come from, you're trying to get approval for something - you don't know what.

Insecurity is a natural part of human nature, and there are times we feel our stories are not worth telling, so we turn to the people we admire for strength. If we dress like someone everyone thinks is cool, perhaps we'll be seen as cool.

Earlier in my career, I was really tight, really together, and knew who I was and I was confident. I kind of feel in between now.

At the level at which I work with people, their great talent is paired with great insecurity. Self-doubt is literally the twin of self-confidence. And I have to be there for both.

It's hard to feel comfortable in your own skin when you're younger.

I tried to be really tough when I was younger. I felt I had to stand up for myself. I never felt like I fit in.

If you're not confident in yourself, you're going to waver. I've wavered, and I've lost.

I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.

You know, either I'm too fat or I'm flavour of the month. I don't feel either, but maybe I'm both, who knows?

I don't know anyone who hasn't woken up one morning, one day in their life and wish they were someone else, or wish they could do something or wish they were capable of something.

They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.

I feel uncomfortable because I'm insecure about who I am.

When I came into the Perry family, it was one of those deals where it was the only family I had. I didn't have a father figure growing up like that, somebody who genuinely cared about me. Governor Perry taught me how to be a good man.

My grandfather was raising me, and in many respects, I was trying to understand what it meant to be a man. He was my role model.

I went through it in high school. It's like, 'Who am I? Am I good enough? Is my background good enough? I know I'm different, but do I have a voice?'

I always felt like a fraud.

I think one of the things I regret was not having more faith in myself early on.

I've always been afraid of who I am and not knowing what I can do.

As an insecure adult in Houston, a writer struggling to make myself heard, I was nourished by those hours with the Houston Rockets in ways that I did not recognize.

Craig T. Nelson, who played my grandfather on 'Parenthood,' gave me a lot of advice at the end of the show. I'm really insecure, and I get uncomfortable with things, and he gave me a lot of advice about that.

In some ways, I was looking for a father figure, and I found that in Donald Trump.

I'm pretty confident, I guess I would say.

It was Bella Absug who taught me to be tough, to let insults roll off my back.