Quotes About Self-image

I got interviewed by one writer who started with the line, 'Mary Gauthier is a woman who clearly doesn't care how she looks.' I do too. It's just that I'm not very good at it.

As beautiful as cinema is, it's a massive part of the problem of why we look at ourselves in the way we do.

In this industry, there's a massive pressure to be a certain weight.

When I was younger I looked a bit like Matthew Modine out of 'Birdy'.

I was maturing in a way that all my friends weren't. How is it that I'm 10, and I look 15, and all my friends don't?

If you think you are young, then that is what you will be. I also feel that with age, comes maturity. But if you think that you are old, then that is what you will be.

As an actor, you don't have much choice about your appearance. It's a good excuse for looking ridiculous.

Everybody laughs at me because I don't really wear much make-up. I have to be forced and usually people buy make-up for me because they're like, this is ridiculous.

I didn't think of my size as an advantage or as something that I could use to be dominant. I didn't carry myself in the ring with the confidence that I should have.

As everyone in the world can see, I am not a rocker.

There have been times where I have been playing a 16-year-old, and people have been like, 'She still looks 12.' I'm like, 'I'm 22. What do you mean I don't look 16?' So I'm comfortable just rocking my young body.

I'm not a romantic lead. I have sticking-out ears and a little troll nose.

I have always been too round to do fashion shows.

Eventually your boobs grow and you can't run anymore, and that was a really rude awakening.

I want to bring love handles and eating sandwiches back.

I'm never satisfied with the way I look.

I've always been aware of the emphasis on beauty in Hollywood, and I think that as one does get older, it can be scary.

I am a striker, and people expect strikers to score goals. But I don't see myself as a striker.

If I don't like seeing myself on the screen, I think when I start seeing that, that's when I think I'll stop.

Go out and face the world secure in the knowledge that everybody else thinks they are better looking than they are as well.

I just wanted everybody to know that I'm not fat. I'm trying to get an eight pack.

I did not get Botox because you wouldn't see any expression in my face. Hopefully it has paid off.

I do sometimes painful things to my body in an effort to conform to culturally imposed beauty ideals.

If you'd asked me when I was younger what life would be like in my 50s, I'd probably have imagined someone like my grandmother. I'd have looked like a little old lady who went for a shampoo and set every week. But it's funny - when you get to your 50s it's not like that at all because apart from a few aches and pains, I feel like I'm in my 30s.