Quotes About Self-image

I find it amusing when you look at plastic surgeons because they don't seem to have had anything done.

I can't help the way I look. What am I supposed to do, put a plastic bag over my head?

I look like a duck. It's the way my mouth curls up, or my nose tilts up. I should have played Howard the Duck.

I don't think I've ever been a fashion item, I don't think I was as a player.

As a bald man who happens to play golf, or a golfer who happens to be bald, I'll never know the pleasures of a golf visor.

I have plenty of vanity in my life. I want to look pretty in the world. But it can be this bottomless pit.

I find the whole concept of being 'sexy' embarrassing and confusing. If I do a photo-shoot, people desperately want to change me - dye my hair blonder, pluck my eyebrows, give me a fringe. Then there's the choice of clothes. I know everyone wants a picture of me in a mini-skirt. But that's not me.

I never really knew what to do with my hair to begin with. When I was fat, I had incredibly long, unkempt hair. And there was kind of a poetic justice to losing something I was hiding behind.

Human beings, from their own point of view, are very different than what people see.

I like anything with my face on it, just from an aesthetic point of view.

I have never been beautiful in cliche terms.

There isn't anybody that looks like me without clothes on.

Clothes maketh the man. They don't make you some other man.

I have a magnificent chin and a long, odd-shaped face. As a result, I always look better in collars.

When you go to college, and you talk about your college experience, there's a lot of revisionist history that goes along with it. You tend to think of yourself as, 'Oh, I got all of the girls. I was the best athlete on the team. I was a straight-A student.' And that's probably not the case.

There's this idea if you are a woman of colour, that you must never let them see you break down. That we've got to show ourselves in the best light, always, as the 'Strong Black Women' and bring that 'black girl magic' all the time.

You know, I've never thought of myself as a comedian.

I don't look at myself as a commodity, but I'm sure a lot of people have.

I don't like that I'm my own commodity, that I am what I sell.

I don't see myself as having to compete with younger actresses; I don't feel that.

I always want to be - and appear to be - competent. When I don't achieve that, I don't respond well.

I am always competing with my body. I am always thinking my body is going to do things it won't do.

I have the sort of round face that you complain about when you're younger, but which serves you well as you get older.

I have to confess that I don't read much of what is written about me.