Quotes About Self-image

I don't really care that much about being a matinee idol.

I'm 4 ft. 2 in. and not exactly a matinee idol.

I did wonder what it would be like if I could have hair.

Don't get me wrong - I'm not against makeup. If I could manage looking like 'me' in a way that also read as tastefully, invisibly airbrushed, I'd sign up for that faster than you could choose a filter to do it for me.

If I could change two things, it would be my chest.

How attractive you are is entirely based on you feel about yourself, and if I could tell my 20-year-old self that - and really explain it - I think it would have changed my life.

If you're an actor, there's going to be a sense of fantasy about yourself, especially in the celebrity world we live in today. You give the illusion of being in control, sexy, at ease, with never a difficult moment. Those are the basic lies that all celebrities tell. For me, they're the more dangerous lies to come to terms with.

I don't want to feel like I have to change myself or my image.

I've never tried to manipulate my image.

I had a very poor image of myself because I believed too much of the people around me when I was very young.

I'm not trying to clean my image to make anyone happy.

I would never create an image for myself; I'm not that clever.

Trying to live the image of the life which you have in your head... it's really hard not to do that, but I do think maybe it's cheating.

It's not hard to keep up the image we chose. It's not hard to stay yourselves.

In a way, you kind of get caught up in whatever image of yourself you think is out there.

I don't have a problem with my image; it's other people who do.

I think it really holds you back having to think about your image.

I think it's somebody else's job to decide what my image is.

I always think I look like the Elephant Man - I can't get used to my own image.

I don't care about my image.

If you have created an image of yourself at 13 and it is still with you at 17, it needs to be dropped.

I grew up under the politics of my size and my skin. I grew up under the politics of the sound of my voice and a lack of agency, or a feeling of a lack of agency, and not always being able to find myself in images that were in the media.

I think at the end of the day this movie is respecting what we as women go through as we grow up. The experiences, what we deal with, other women, things about images, things that we deal with as women.

Words and images deeply impact the way we view our bodies, and the consequences can be very damaging.