Quotes About Self-image

I transform when I work, but on a daily basis, I really don't pay that much attention to my looks.

There's a great desire for people to alter themselves, but it's also the art of transformation. 'I want a bigger butt; I want bigger boobs.' The artifice interests me - how we're capable of altering ourselves. There's a creative element that's very intriguing.

I don't think that I'm as big as Lobo is, but if you could, like, transplant Mickey Rourke's body on my head, that would be just great.

When we hate ourselves we destroy our bodies with alcohol, drugs, casual sex, and a bunch of stuff. Then we look at ourselves and hate ourselves even more.

Remember that the mirror can show you a reflection of what you are wearing. It can show you an image of your body that you will only mistakenly compare to the image of someone else's body. The mirror cannot show you your soul.

In New York, if you weigh under 200 pounds and decline so much as a cookie at a co-worker's party, women will flock to your side, assuring you of your appealing physique. This is how skittish we are about the dangers of anorexia and the pressures of body image.

ego, then, is the absence of true knowledge of who we really are, together with its result: a doomed clutching on, at all costs, to a cobbled together and makeshift image of ourselves, an inevitably chameleon charlatan self that keeps changing and has to, to keep alive the fiction of its existence.

Así pues, el ego es la carencia de un verdadero conocimiento sobre quiénes somos en realidad, junto con su consecuencia: el inexorable aferramiento, que está condenado al fracaso, a una imagen de nosotros mismos improvisada y hecha de remiendos, un yo inevitablemente camaleónico y charlatán que no cesa de cambiar constantemente para mantener viva la ficción de su existencia.

I work with really cool people, and so far I haven't been approached in any embarrassing manner when it comes to image.

The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.

Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got an fifty percent what people think you've got.

My experience as a police inspector has taught me that many people are able to regard themselves with inordinate fondness, no matter what heinous crimes they have committed. They care only about how they look to others, and whether they can get away with it.

For some reason I hesitate to tell him where I live. I don't want to come across as the spoiled little rich girl that's fallen low. Even if I am.

A volte penso che dovrei mettermi a dieta, poi penso che se dimagrissi sarei sempre tesa per la paura di ingrassare, invece così sono tranquilla.

I'm only afraid of getting fat.

The truth comes when you can see that your self-image is just a convenient reference point and nothing more, and that you as you had imagined yourself do not exist.

The longer we view ourselves through a distorted lens, the more likely we are to believe a distorted truth.

The more we live with what we imagine others think of us, the less we live with truth.

The truth is that genetics has robbed me of hair. But it's not interesting to blame genetics.

The truth is it's fun to be up there and know that you're in your underwear. Even though I know I'm exploiting my sexuality in a certain way, it's fun! It boosts my ego.

I think beauty is the splendor of truth, so if the people I portray think they're beautiful, they're beautiful. I don't make them that way.

The truth is, I'm a character guy. That's how I see myself. I always see the role as being far more interesting and important than I am... not all actors approach it that way.

An excess of the desire to appear grown up is one of the defining characteristics of adolescence.

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