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Quotes About Self-image

If you see yourself in the paper every day and people keep talking about you, you will have a little breakdown in yourself, too.
~ Gary Payton
I used to wear Clark Kent glasses, ever since I was in college. I used to have those Army-issue glasses, and they used to be those black glasses Clark Kent used to wear. And I wore those for years.
~ Mark Valley
I didn't want to be known as the reality-show star trying to be an actress, so I kept a lot of the failed auditions to myself.
~ Jamie Chung
When I played Ivanhoe, kids used to come along and kick me because they thought I wore armour under my clothes. When I was Maverick, I was accepted as a cowboy. And in 'The Persuaders,' I became Lord Brett Sinclair. In other words, I am what I am for as long as I am.
~ Roger Moore
I'm still the fat kid from high school who never had a date.
~ Nathan Lane
I'm not going to have beautiful curves or Kim Kardashian's body. I just have to accept that.
~ Annie Ilonzeh
I always thought of myself as a big-dog kinda guy.
~ Eric Dane
I'm like a big kid. But it's not like a called myself the Instagram King. I put up what people want to see and that just happened.
~ Dan Bilzerian
I like a hem below my knee even though I was blessed with fairly good gams.
~ Lynda Resnick
For years, I tried to resist the hero label.
~ Chesley Sullenberger
I just don't want to give anybody a reason to label me as something I'm not.
~ Marcus Smart
This idea appealed to me—I was a quiet kid myself, branded "mean," and I liked the idea of a mouth that nobody expected anything from, a mouth that was just red sewing.)
~ Karen Russell
For example, parent support could be most important in the early grades, when children's academic self-image is just beginning to coalesce, but over time, as children become more self-directive, the immediate influence of parent support might wane.
~ Karl Alexander
The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original.
~ Karl Kraus
I never - you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
All well-brought-up people are afraid of having any experience which seems to them uncharacteristic of themselves as they imagine themselves to be.
~ Katharine Butler Hathaway
When I do get pregnant, I highly doubt I'll be one of those women who don't look pregnant from behind - I'll be that chick who looks pregnant from her ankles up!
~ Katherine Heigl
For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to... 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don't have one of those.
~ Gabriel Mann
It's a well-known fact that hate shows up on your face once you're forty.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
They loved him. He was more handsome in front of a crowd; his limp, less apparent; his voice, warm and authoritative. It was as if all these years Sam had been waiting for an audience.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
I was overweight when I was her age, and my mother discussed it exhaustively. And yes, as a result, I would say I am the proud owner of several complexes. But who isn't? When you think about it, isn't a person just a structure built in reaction to the landscape and the weather?
~ Gabrielle Zevin
You've got a decent smile, I'll give you that, but your teeth are too big and so is your ass and you're not twenty-five anymore even if you drink like you are. You shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
But she broke down when she started losing her hair. "I know this seems ridiculous," she said. "But it's the only thing I can focus on. The rest is too huge.
~ Gail Caldwell
You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.
~ Garrett Hedlund