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Quotes About Self-image

I've always thought I'm pretty ugly.
~ James Arthur
It's fine being stared at as a pretty girl, but not as a freak. When I tried to make myself ugly, they said, 'Oh, she's lost her looks.'
~ Ava Gardner
I never considered myself a supermodel or anything like that. I mean, I don't think I'm ugly. I have good days and bad days, and I like when I'm fit and lean and all of those things that any woman likes, but it's not the eye of the hurricane for me.
~ Chelsea Handler
When I was 14, I thought I looked terrible. I wore these typical Slavic shoes with metal bottoms so you could always hear me coming and this really ugly princess skirt and blouse with the top button closed. I had a boy haircut, a baby face covered with pimples, and a really big nose.
~ Marina Abramovic
When I play, I feel like I'm in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player?
~ Anna Kournikova
I never thought I was pretty enough. I was kind of tall and lanky. I don't mind it now, but back in the day I hated it. I would tell myself that what I think is ugly at 17 is actually what's going to be pretty about me later.
~ Giuliana Rancic
I think it's a little irresponsible for women who choose surgery to then say they can portray the average woman on the street, because if the average woman can't afford those treatments, then she's going to say, 'I'm 53 and I don't look like that,' and start thinking she's ugly or inadequate.
~ Debra Winger
I'm cool with the way I look, I'm not an ugly dog, but I don't see myself as a stud or anything.
~ Seann William Scott
When I was very young, I wanted to be a girl. I was jealous that girls got to be princesses and wear skirts. It tormented me. When I was 6, I even heard that you could change your sex, and I was very intrigued until the moment I realized that if I changed into a girl, I would be an ugly girl, and this is the last thing I wanted to be.
~ Olivier Theyskens
I was so beautiful when I was young. And I took so few photos because I felt so skinny and ugly. I wish I'd just taken a few more shots.
~ Douglas Coupland
With proper acting, I don't know what I would play - I got sent a script for a play, and it said in the notes that my proposed character was 'hideously fat and ugly'. That made my day. I mean, I do know I am no oil painting.
~ Jo Brand
I've had all types of beautiful girls tell me that they ugly when they look in the mirror, as if it's someone else's reflection they see.
~ Lee Daniels
God, I used to have really skinny-crap eyebrows. They were such an ugly disaster.
~ Lily James
That's just me and my own body issues - I think I'm fat and bald and old and ugly.
~ Jeffrey Tambor
The song 'Conceited' on 'There's Something About Remy' was inspired by people always telling me that I'm so much prettier in person or that I've lost so much weight since they saw me on TV. I don't even know if that's a compliment. Were you watching me on TV thinking I was ugly?
~ Remy Ma
When you hear you're going to audition for 'Dogfight,' the show about bringing ugly women to parties, you're like, 'Oh, great, thank you.' Then you read lines where people call you fat, and you call yourself fat or ugly, and it can wear on you. But that's also our dream as actors, to play someone else and give someone else a voice.
~ Lindsay Mendez
I don't think I'm ugly per se, but on bad days, I have been told that I look like the monster from 'The Hills Have Eyes.' That was extremely confidence-shattering, so I try to take care of myself.
~ Chris Gethard
My reputation was that I had bad BO, and I was poor, and I was ugly.
~ Rain Dove
In our profession if you've got an ugly mark or there's anything that cosmetic surgery can do for you I think it's absolutely fine. I would consider it, but I've been very lucky not to have to.
~ Prunella Scales
We wake up some days and feel like the most fierce people ever. But some days we'll be like: 'Oh my God, I'm so ugly.'
~ Perrie Edwards
I never think about my face. I actually just care about what I'm doing - my voice and my character. I don't care about, 'Am I fat? Am I ugly?'
~ Sammo Hung
In America, there's a programme called 'The Swan.' They take 12 ugly people and call them 'ugly ducklings.' They spend six months and have everything done - plastic surgery, teeth, everything. And then they have this moment where their family is brought in, and they are revealed. It's scary.
~ Trinny Woodall
Someone actually called me and said: 'Jordyn, you're getting too skinny!' But 'skinny' has never been my goal. My ultimate goal is health.
~ Jordyn Woods
I think if you watch a lot of what I do, you're going to ultimately walk away seeing me. I can't hide - that impression is a personal impression people have of me.
~ Michael Shannon