Quotes About Self-image

I'd do an exercise video because there are so many gay men with these perfect abs and they do exercise videos. So I did an exercise video where my stomach looked like my water's about to break.

I always feel kind of awkward when I look at pictures of myself. Watching videos of myself is really uncomfortable.

I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.

The key to me recovering from drug addiction was figuring out why I was so upset and why I hated myself so much. I realised it was all to do with the way I was viewed by other people.

Acting is how I'll be able to change how Latinos are viewed in media and change how little girls see and talk about themselves.

Huge with child, and lumbering about dressed in black - I'll look like one of those hopper-barges loaded with refuse and sent out to sea." "You're too small to be a barge," Cassandra said. "You'll be a tugboat.

But she understood from watching her mother that there was a cost to beauty—you were chained to it for years, and when it finally released you, you didn't know who you were anymore.

While he sat there he decided he would buy a waterbed. He had always imagined owning a waterbed when he was successful, but now it struck him that getting the bed might invoke the man he wanted to become. You bought a waterbed and so became the sort of man who owned a waterbed.

mostly, the world sees you the way you see yourself.

Do I look like a Jonas Brother? Then why is everyone waiting for me to lose it?

And then I got really sad. I'm simply too young to hate my body. I'm going to be old in like two minutes, and my body really will be difficult to love. But now, well, it's fine. Why shouldn't I admire it ? It's mine and it keeps me healthy and I should accept it, just the way it is. There are people who are sick or disabled and who would kill to have a strong, healthy body, and the last thing they're worrying about is their fucking cellulite.

I play the "Guess Who's on a First Date" game. Which ninety-seven-pound girl is eating her weight in pasta, thinking the best way to ensnare a man is by acting like you're an effortlessly sexy robot who doesn't sweat, poop, diet, or nag?

Maybe in fairytales you're only as old as you feel, but here in L. A. you're every second as old as your pores.

We are—or we become—what we pretend to be, so we must be very careful who we pretend to be.

Women might not like to admit their age, but men don't like to act theirs.

Transformation is not five minutes from now; it's a present activity. In this moment you can make a different choice, and it's these small choices and successes that build up over time to help cultivate a healthy self-image and self esteem.

Simply put: once you accept you're old—you become old. Your

I'm so pretty, it's hard for me to think of myself as intelligent.

No one is an unjust villain in his own mind

We're stunning—and we need to be, if we're to make a good impression and accomplish our goals. It's vain, it's stupid, and it's shallow, but that makes it no less true.

I'm so pretty, it's hard for me to think of myself as intelligent.

Mortimer Lindquist seemed to have finally given in to the inevitable. I'd seen him with a bad toupee, and with an even worse comb-over, but this was the first time I'd seen him sporting a full-on Charles Xavier.

In fancy Los Angeles hotel rooms there is always an uncomfortable number of mirrors that remind us why we are not movie stars.

the child trying not to appear as a child, of the strenuousness with which she tried to present the face of a convincing adult.