"I think I'm much less self confident today. I actually went through a quite painful period because of that thinking that I was completely hopeless. But I think that's something that we all go through at various times of our lives and it was quite a sustained thing with me"

This quote by Hugo Weaving speaks to the concept that confidence can be a delicate thing, which it can be lost and restored gradually. Weaving recommends that he has gone through a duration of low confidence, which he describes as "quite painful". He acknowledges that this is something that many individuals experience at different points in their lives, and that his own period of low self-esteem was sustained. This quote speaks to the idea that self-confidence is something that can be lost and gained back, and that it is important to be kind to ourselves and to recognize that these durations of low self-esteem are normal and can be gotten rid of.