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Quotes About Self-image

It's inevitable: as I get older, I am going to get more wrinkles; it's something you have to accept.
~ Louise Nurding
If you don't physically age gracefully, it's a bit sad. I think Steven Tyler can get away anything, because he still looks like he did in '73. Especially from row Z backwards in an arena. As long as the Stones keep their hair and don't get fat they'll get away with the wrinkles.
~ Joe Elliott
I keep falling off the edge of the stage because I can't see it. I can't see my wrinkles in the mirror either, though.
~ John Lydon
I see wrinkles and lines, and wear glasses to read, which I hate. But I am in a better place in my body than I used to be.
~ Bonnie Langford
If you don't like your wrinkles and you think Botox or surgery is going to fix it, do it and shut up. But don't keep talking about it.
~ Linda Gray
I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol.
~ Steven Seagal
I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
~ Zadie Smith
I definitely don't Google myself, because I get paparazzi'd every day. You're bound to have something happen and someone mean writes something. There's no power. You don't know who they are, and they're behind the computer. Just don't read it.
~ Sophie Monk
But there was the mirror in which I would glimpse his handsome form, because mirrors don't lie about men, only women.
~ Gregory Maguire
When we hear our voice coming from somewhere else, it sounds higher and thinner, which is why so many people dislike hearing recordings of themselves.
~ Gretchen Rubin
She removed the wraps, which covered her shoulders, before the glass, so as once more to see herself in all her glory. But suddenly she uttered a cry. She had no longer the necklace around her neck!
~ Guy de Maupassant
But you're beautiful, and the beautiful should be given whatever they want. Hey, what about the ugly ones? The ugly ones. She poked her tongue out. It's their fault if their ugly. They're to be blamed, not pitied.
~ Hanif Kureishi
I put my arms out in front of me so the dog wouldn't rip my hands off. I must have looked like a sleepwalker, but as I wanted my hands for other purposes, I didn't care about this baroque pose, though as a rule I cared fanatically about the way I looked, and behaved as if the entire world had nothing better to do than constantly observe me for slips in a very complicated and private etiquette
~ Hanif Kureishi
Being this handsome. It is not easy, you realize.' 'And yet you suffer without complaint.
~ Harlan Coben
Hope she's not getting Gloria." "Why?" "She kinda looks like a white version of me," Jake said. "Only with a heavier beard.
~ Harlan Coben
DR. Harvey Riker replaced the receiver. He sighed heavily and put a hand through his long, unruly, gray-brown hair, a cross between Albert Einstein's and Art Garfunkel's. He looked every bit of his fifty years. His muscle had turned to flab from lack of exercise. His face was average to the point of tedium. Never much of a hunk to begin with, Harvey's looks had soured over the years like a two-dollar Chianti. He
~ Harlan Coben
I'm hardly disinterested totally in my appearance.
~ Frank Langella
You think he's going to like you better, but then one day you look in the mirror and realize you've changed yourself - physically and emotionally - into a woman who's totally different from the one he was attracted to the first place.
~ Shelley Duvall
Even if I'm in a movie theatre, I'll touch up an hour into the film because I know I could be a little shiny.
~ Jeffree Star
When I do see a picture of myself that has been touched up too much, I do get a bit sad... it makes me look like a hypocrite. It breaks my heart. I would rather shoot a magazine and shoot my flaws, but that's not up to me.
~ Kendra Wilkinson
Being sexy is kind of funny to me. You know, I can get kind of spunky or I can get tough, you know, that kind of tough, sexy look. But sexy? No, I don't think so.
~ Reba McEntire
Growing up in New Jersey, everyone wanted to be a tough guy. That meant baggy pants that fell down, big T- shirts, and chains. I couldn't imagine wearing tight jeans, as I thought it was dorky. Now I look at pictures of me then and think, 'Yeah, you looked dorky.'
~ Paul Wesley
I know the first seven years of my career I thought I had to be this big tough guy. But in a world where you have guys taller and bigger, that role was already filled.
~ Big E
Hiding behind a tougher outer image as a teenager feels cooler and safer compared to admitting, perhaps, that you're the very opposite.
~ Alex Lawther