Quotes About Self-image

The power of the expert is very great and the way in which an expert sees you may easily become the way in which you see yourself.

I'm not a size 0, and I'm nowhere close to it. But, I don't want anyone to know what I am so I like to design clothes so you don't know what's going on under there.

Girls like Caroline and Lily are constantly performing, as much for the Good Girl they think they should be as for the adults and peers who look on. They have spent their lives growing internally dependent on external rewards: pats on the back A's, club presidencies, Most Valuable Player trophies. They become more concerned with how they appear and should be than who they are What other think and feel replaces what is true for them.

Only he qualifies to be an INDIVIDUAL, who has created an IMAGE for himself, in tune with his INTRINSIC NATURE, for majority only succumb to the human stupidity and perish!

The kinds of attention we get on social media is really very much like crack cocaine. We have social obesity I call it—we can't stop our consumption of opportunities to display ourselves and get feedback from other people.

When your emotions or your behavior are contrary to your own self-image, it's time to stand back and reassess.

My personal breakdown would look a lot like Lazzaro's: Fun is the act of mastering a problem mentally. Aesthetic appreciation isn't always fun, but it's certainly enjoyable. Visceral reactions are generally physical in nature and relate to physical mastery of a problem. Social status signals of various sorts are intrinsic to our self-image and our standing in a community.

I just think that I'll never have plastic surgery if I'm not in front of the camera. If you make your living selling this thing, which is the way you look, then maybe you do it. But trust me, the minute I'm directing or producing and not starring, I would never even think of it.

I am not walking around looking like Luke Cage does at all.

I was basically a surfer girl from California. I never looked like a model.

I didn't know what to do with calories.

I don't know if the camera likes me, but I do like the camera.

I don't like talking about which bits I like or don't like about my body. Everybody has something they're not happy with, and my only advice would be, 'Do something about it - exercise or eat less, but don't do nothing!' Find ways to enhance the good bits and camouflage the bad bits.

I lost a lot of weight. No carbs for a good six or seven months. It was tough but I looked hot.

I cared too much about people liking me because I didn't like myself enough.

I wasn't raised in a family that cared about how you look. The fact that I have made my living in acting, where that matters, that really feels antithetical to me as a person.

As far as TV goes, of course there's pressure to look good. It's not something I've ever cared about too much.

I tell you, those old dudes who say, 'I don't care about fashion,' they're not going out in drag. Everyone cares about fashion.

I didn't want to start acting like a cartoon.

Some of those cartoons look nothing like me.

I didn't have a lot of cash... but in my mind I looked like Lenny Kravitz!

I was asked before to go out on '8 out of 10 Cats,' and I've been asked to go on 'Question Time,' I said to no to that. I don't see myself coming across well on that sort of thing.

I just don't understand how people can get so caught up in having their picture taken.

When we grow older, we start getting caught up with ourselves. We try and live up to an image.