Quotes About Self-image

Clothes are about manipulations: how I feel, how I want to feel and how I want others to feel about me.

I look in the mirror and it's hard for me. I am really thin. I want to look fit and beautiful and sexy, and I can't.

A moustache to a man is the same as a fringe is to a woman. When you've got it, you want to grow it out; when you've grown it out, you want to cut it.

I finally have the body I want. It's easy, actually, you just have to want a really shitty body.

The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation... they do not want to attract attention.

It's so difficult to feel comfortable in the body you have. You always want to look a different way, taller or thinner, whatever it may be. I still struggle with it. I think everybody does.

I am not sure about facelifts because I wouldn't want to be someone who just looks like she's had a facelift.

I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.

A lot of actors get concerned about their own image, even going so far as to rewrite a movie to best serve that image. All I want to do is be in good movies.

I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.

The first principle of ethical power is Purpose... It is the picture you have of yourself - the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead.

When it comes to size, most people don't want to see themselves looking bigger than what they are.

New Yorkers suffered from what a modern psychologist would label a poor self-image. New Yorkers who cared about such matters, and who had visited such European cities as London, Paris and Rome, were the first to admit that New York was becoming a not very pretty city and disparaged (according to a contemporary account) "this cramped horizontal gridiron of a town without … porticoes, fountains or perspectives, hide-bound in its deadly uniformity of mean ugliness.

What we perceive about ourselves is greatly a reflection of how we will end up living our lives.

A good self-esteem level is mostly dependant on how we value ourselves without any bias.

How we relate with other people is dependent on how we rate ourselves and what we think about ourselves.

Our own self-esteem is something we can actually twist in whatever way we want.

The image you currently have of yourself is as high as you can go....

I must have had that Bugsy Malone type of face that attracts every fucker to have a go at me.

At 31 years of age, Fred West was a big man trapped in a little man's body. He thought himself to be a gynecologist and Warren Beatty look-a-like all rolled into one … the surgeon and the stud.

You see, self-image that is built on a lie will one day destroy you. I'm important, valuable, and significant not because I am good but because I am loved—incredibly loved. The realization that I am unconditionally loved is the very thing that has led to psychological security. I have a very good self-image, thank you. There

Discovering a biblical self-image in Christ increases your dependency upon Him and decreases an unhealthy dependency upon one another. I

Social scientists sometimes talk about the concept of "identity". It is the idea that you have a particular vision of the kind of person you are, and you feel awful when you do things that are out of line with that vision.

Everyone wants to be glamorous, no doubt, but I was so young when I came here. I was doing all these roles, wearing a mini skirt, running around and acting 'cute.' When I'd watch myself on screen I'd be like 'eeks, I can't believe that's me.'