Quotes About Self-image

I think anyone doing an interview is to some extent on show. And therefore, we always want to put on our best face.

If you're going for an interview, you will dress smartly and look the part, that is absolutely fine, but it's just the level to which this becomes the ultimate focus of everything, where you have people who won't go to school unless they've put their make-up on, or won't leave the house unless they've spent two hours getting ready.

her third day in New York, Jacaranda looked at herself in the Essex mirror and thought she looked ten years younger than the forty she'd looked in La Jolla. By the fourth day she looked twenty-five years old, and by the end of a week she looked what her mother, when she saw her, referred to as "your age, dear, eighteen.

When I weigh 130, my friends think I'm dying and use words like gaunt . When I weight 125, which is almost but not quite what Vogue might be able to deal with, I look as old as Jeanne Moreau when she's just murdered someone.

I look OK. I look better in person than I do on film, which is bad because it's how I make my living, but I am not a beauty and on balance I am glad.

Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.

The problem is that we create an image of ourselves in our childhood and youth (often at the urging of parents, siblings or friends), and subsequently attempt to graft reality onto this image. More often than not, the graft doesn't take and the result is bewilderment and disappointment.

It is a case not of the Emperor's but of the Everyman's New Clothes.

Mis propios sentimientos no tenían nada de real. Lo que importaba era mi fe en el amor que tú sentías por mí. Me reflejaba en otro ser, y mi imagen así reflejada no tenía nada de repelente. Me sentía con grandes ánimos en una tregua deliciosa.

En las redes sociales, un resultado elevado de narcisismo estaría correlacionado con una actividad intensa en el reclutamiento de gran número de «amigos» o de seguidores para dar una imagen grandiosa de uno mismo, sin tratar de desarrollar relaciones personales.

It's more important to look good than to feel good. Billy Crystal on Saturday Night Live

People who are clinically depressed have their own disturbances with food. For some, it's as if hand to mouth were an involuntary reflex, as if food could fill the abyss. Which it can't, and they grow fat, which does nothing good for their state of mind. The others are rarely hungry or else they are never hungry. They emaciate, become insubstantial, a manifestation of the wish to disappear. Bunny is one of the thin ones.

If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ego has reached a point where it is now eating itself.

Science and psychology have isolated the one prime cause for success or failure in life. It is the hidden self-image you have of yourself.

I have calmed down a little and my work is going better than yesterday, so well, in fact, that it does itself and I can slip back into the womb of time, into my youth, when I ironed my trousers and shined my shoes, soles included, every Saturday, because when you're young you love keeping clean, you love your self-image, an image you still have time to improve.

but why was he the way he was? Why, when in fact he was a shy and timid person, was he compelled to be number one and champion of the world in eating and drinking, why was he always fleeing from us, and when unable to flee, why the awful theatrics, the showing off?

Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can't see how bad I look, and with my rotten memory, I have a good excuse for getting out of a lot of stuff.

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

A young lady can only look charming at so much per yard. A pretty miss in calico is a lovely woman in silk; and a charming girl in muslin is an angel in satin. At least she thinks so, and who would contradict a lady?

The stress that kills or cripples most of the population comes from people being too hard on themselves when they don't live up to their own imaginings about how other people think they should behave.

We learned that we needed to look in the mirror and see what others saw in us and not just what we wanted to see in ourselves.

Olivia turned off the ignition. Matt checked his face in the visor mirror. He looked like hell. Lawrence was right. What with the bandage wrapped around his head, he did resemble the soldier playing the flute in Willard's Spirit of '76.

She was raw sexuality, maybe ten pounds bigger than she should have been but those pounds were exquisitely distributed.

That ain't honest, Mr. Raymond, making yourself out badder'n you are already -' 'It ain't honest but it's mighty helpful to folks. Secretly, Miss Finch, I'm not much of a drinker, but you see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live.