I didn't know how to show my self love, and I didn't want anyone else to hurt me. So my tough girl attitude was like, 'I'm not having it.'
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I don't have the feelings of self-worth that a woman should have... and that's been the center of a lot of my mistakes and a lot of my pain.
I beat myself up the whole time because I'm striving for something I'll basically never achieve. I portray this image of confidence, of arrogance, and it's not really me. I'm never satisfied, and I'm never content. It means I'm a bit of a mess some of the time.
It was extremely difficult to suppress my emotions, because my character in' A Girl at My Door' goes through so many infuriating situations. It was a lonely process having to portray someone that acts tough but is deeply hurting inside and is unable to express that.
One day I looked at something in myself that I had been avoiding because it was too painful. Yet once I did, I had an unexpected surprise. Rather than self-hatred, I was flooded with compassion for myself because I realized the pain necessary to develop that coping mechanism to begin with.
Self-loathing doesn't keep me from being happy. But that doesn't mean I don't struggle.
Well. I'm probably not loving myself like I should, but I'm really trying.
There's no room in my life for feeling sorry for myself.
I'm not about hurting the person I'm with.
One of the reasons I was so unhappy for years was because I never embraced my emotions and I was trying to stay in control.
What I try to do is never to hurt anybody else and figure if I don't, then I'm not likely to get hurt myself.
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