Quotes About Self-image

I could tell when I first started having sessions with stylists that my size was an issue. No one outright told me to lose weight but I knew it was a problem. I started to lose weight when I began touring.

I hated myself because I had this imagined version of who I wanted to be. Looking back, this idealized person was an amalgamation of various toxic leading men I would watch in movies over the years. Cool. Strong. Mysterious. Serious. Intense.

I didn't want to be known as Madonna's playboy, her boy toy.

I just didn't see any toys that looked like me when I was a kid.

I'm young, and I'm a girl, so, when I post something, I want to see what people are saying or what they think of my photos. I've found it better if you don't read anything and you just always stay off that track.

If you would ask me at 15 years old if I would have traded prosthetics for flesh and bone legs, I wouldn't have hesitated for a second. I aspired to that kind of normalcy back then. But if you ask me today, I'm not so sure.

This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.

I don't trust anyone who does their own hair. I don't think it's natural.

Sex appeal is 50% what you've got, and 50% what people think you've got." —SOPHIA LOREN

To be thought of as the perfect woman for a man isn't a compliment to a woman, it's more about how a man sees himself. Should we marry, either I will be exhausted trying to keep his illusion intact — or Lord Bancroft will be severely disappointed in his choice. Likely both.

Charlotte sat before her vanity, pinning up her hair and counting her chins.

The desire for the edited life crosses generations, but the young consider it their birthright.

But, of course, what is up on Facebook is her edited life.

I'm not a strikingly handsome guy, but I'm in movies.

Because Shingon is Vajrayana, the main meditation practice involves working with visualizations, mantras, and mudra gestures. You replace your self-image with that of an archetype, you replace your usual mental talk with the mantra of that archetype, and you take on the physical and emotional body experience of that archetype through making mudras—ritual hand gestures. If your concentration is good enough, your identity briefly shifts. You become that archetype.

We must reject not only the stereotypes that others hold of us, but also the stereotypes that we hold of ourselves.

Possibly because I grew up not feeling very confident about my own physical appearance, I developed internal devices so that I could integrate into society.

This MGM flurry of concern about my body was unnerving. Having always taken my appearance for granted, I felt suddenly misshapen. Even Mother, whose earlier comments had always been good-natured, joined the critical chorus. [...] Stuck with myself, once again I resolved to stay friends with my body.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

We'll probably never save our souls - but hell, at least we'll get our hair sorted.

I once made the mistake of going for a whole row of false eyelashes, which was just wrong as it gave me a sad, puppy-eyed look.

She checked herself in the mirror. She was a roadmap of violence.

We're actors in our lives, pretendin' to be who we want people to think we are.

What's with all those tattoos? Makes you look like a hooligan." "I suspect I am a hooligan.