Confidence Quote by Lydia Davis

“When I was a little girl... a movie made me realize what I wanted to be in life.”

— Sonja de Lange

“It felt like I was watching the whole thing from somewhere else, like I was watching a movie about my life instead of living…

— John Green

“Those times when I couldn’t stand what I was, and I didn’t know how I could possibly be something else.”

— Kate Bornstein

“In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out in the world…

— Mary Olier

“I was familiar with the realms of unnatural, for I myself was an unnatural. Not a monster in appearance; I looked like other young…

— Adam McOmber

“I wanted, then, to become what I most admired, what now seemed most real to me. I wanted to be that exalted, complicated presence…

— Megan Mayhew Bergman

“Maybe there was a time when you could make films that mattered, but now?”

— Hayao Miyazaki

“I... was impulsive and skinny, and wished that I could be more like a character in a novel, so I would finally stop blurting…

— Yvonne Woon

“I wondered what it would be like to be just myself all the time, but my self seemed to be far away, and made…

— Jane Devin

“I was twenty-six years old and I wasn't really sure about what I was. You probably wouldn't look at me twice. An ordinary girl,…

— Jojo Moyes

“I felt as if I had gotten to the point where I could no longer trust myself. I was not the same person any…

— Benjamin Jones

“(My parents) had always instilled in me that it was way cooler to be an individual and to be unique and that you don't…

— Winona Ryder