Quotes About Self-image

God doesn't love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face. You know, I prayed about it a long, long, long, long, long time, because there again, I wouldn't want to do anything that I felt was going to be offensive to God.

I'm not proud that, in my time, I've tried to harness the power of prayer to fit into a pair of jeans.

Nothing, not even human life, is more precious to us than our myths about ourselves.

If someone asked, 'Would you prefer to be thought of as St. Michael as opposed to the devil,' I might say St. Michael. But that choice is not really there, because you are in an environment in which you have natural predators and enemies.

I can be pretty, I just prefer not to.

I have a boy's body. I would prefer to have more curves because I think that's more beautiful. I would much rather have J. Lo's body than mine.

If you ask any VC what it takes to be successful, you'll get a description that sounds a lot like himself. There's a preference for self-similar individuals.

I don't have those great, strong, glowing pregnancies.

I've heard all kinds of crazy rumors about myself. I've even heard that I'm pregnant! I've become real good about laughing things off - I figure I'd better get used to it.

I didn't enjoy being pregnant. You feel particularly ungraceful.

Oh, listen, honey, I'm never gonna be photographed in a bikini again. That's all over. But I love being pregnant.

When I was pregnant for the first time, I could not believe how I gained so much weight.

I know a lot of people who're going through premature balding but they're so confident in their approach. However, there are some who do have complexes and I'm sure they will learn to overcome that.

I don't prepare for wearing a bikini; I always have a bit of a tummy.

I have no way of comparing myself to other people my age; I can't compare myself with Jane Fonda, can I? I haven't had the work done. I admire the discipline of someone who maintains that degree of beauty, but I'm not prepared to do it.

It's not a prerequisite for an actor to be obsessed about his looks. I know there are people who don't look in the mirror at all, and I'm getting there.

I'm not going to present myself one way all the time just because it will make me sell best.

I feel like I'm constantly fighting against my exterior, or this exterior presentation of myself, because of how I look or perhaps because of who I'm with.

Everyone has a mobile phone with a camera; every phone can record video. You have to be prepared to be captured. It's very easy to be misconstrued and presented in ways that you wouldn't prefer. If I take a selfie with bags under my eyes, it becomes a hashtag.

The bottom line as far as I was concerned was presenting to the public who Gerry Ferraro was.

I want to educate my daughter on presenting herself in the media and in the world.

Like the diminishing beauty returns for a facially paralyzed Botox addict, the more forcefully we attempt to stop the passage of time, the less available we are to the very moment we seek to preserve.

If you start believing all that press about you, you're in trouble. I don't even read my reviews.

I don't ever want to believe my own press clippings, good or bad.