Quotes About Self-image

I don't think cops should wear mirrored sunglasses; the whole time the guy was chewing me out, all I could think was I should cut my bangs.

I dieted all the time in the Sixties, but we had no idea what dieting meant - we thought it meant not eating anything.

Every time I see myself in print or on TV, I feel like a little white girl. I feel fat.

The real beauty of the time we're living through is that we can deploy our self-image in ways that can have radical social implications.

I feel like I need to start wearing a T-shirt saying 'This is not a photo opportunity'. People are so lovely but you do find that when you're out you spend 40% of your time posing for photographs.

When girls are asking themselves 'Who am I?' for the first time and they hear all this bad PR about math, they think, 'Well, whoever I am, I'm not somebody who likes math.'

Everybody has a cartoon of themselves. Mine is: I write very fast, and I'm ruthlessly efficient with my time.

The only time I did not know how to be, physically, was when I lost a lot of weight. That was the only time I didn't understand my body.

Most people have a time-bound awareness. And the reason is they have sacrificed their self for their self-image.

I'm very much over my hair. If it was up to me, I'd have cut it a long time ago.

Weight was the thing I hyperfocused on. It went from me losing a few pounds to slowly over time losing more and more weight and becoming more and more focused on it.

I don't know what I'd do if I had to look pretty all the time.

She was convinced that she was anorexic, because every time she looked in the mirror she did indeed see a fat person.

I stopped Googling myself a long time ago. I'm sure there's plenty of misinformation out there, but I am blissfully unaware of it.

For a woman, body image is always a palpable thing. Weirdly, for me, the only time I don't care is when I'm in character.

I am enjoying my face changing, as well as realizing that at the same time, as you get older, the machine isn't as well-oiled as it was.

It's true that you need much time to get rid of the fat girl you once were, but you know I am sincerely grateful for my buttocks.

I used to weigh myself every day at a certain time of day. Then I would write down the number and measure my body fat. It wasn't a healthy way to live.

There was a time when I was 312 pounds. And I've been all different weights.

I remember thinking that I'd never show my arms on TV, but over time you loosen up.

Always be just and honest so that every time you look at the mirror you don't see an abominable creature on it!

Maybe I exclude myself from that genre by not getting dressed up often enough, by acting ghetto most of the time, and running around in sweats and Timberlands.

hold out your right hand, palm up. Imagine a 2-inch-tall version of yourself in a military uniform, with a whip in one hand and a gun in the other, stomping around in your palm, shrieking deeply personal insults and commanding you to lose weight. This is the Dictator.

Being photographed was dead time for the soul. Can the head think, while it does the same half smile under the same light frown? If this was all true, then Richard's soul was in great shape. No one photographed him any more, not even his wife. When the photographs came back from an increasingly infrequent holiday. Richard was never there..an elbow or earlobe on the edge of the frame, on the edge of life and love..