Quotes About Self-image

Divorce is always experienced as a failure. It threatens a person's self-image of being good, being loved, being valued.

There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.

Do I really have moves like Jagger? F**king A, no, I don't. But I was going to tell everybody that I did and hoped they believed me.

The focus on my appearance has really surprised me. I've always been a size 14 to 16, I don't care about clothes, I'd rather spend my money on cigarettes and booze.

Not that I was morbidly obese or anything. But I guess I was hanging on the hope that one day I might accidentally whittle down to my inner toothpick.

I'm a short woman with a pretty good body and large breasts — that's not what I think of as sexy.

I definitely don't see myself as an actor. I don't even have it on my passport. I've got 'writer and electrician' on my passport. I don't want anyone to think I'm an actor.

Well, I mean she's of a certain biological age but she didn't have to go around with fat patches and stuff.

For whatever reason, I decided: 'I'm 18, I'm a man, I'm going to grow a moustache' - and it was pathetic for years - it was awful.

I honestly never considered myself an actor. An actor would be someone like Paul Muni or Spencer Tracy. I was more of a personality.

If I don't shave I look like a peach with fuzz on it - not a good look.

I think it's hilarious if people say that my body looks masculine.

A lot of people say I'm bent, and I've heard it so many times that I've almost learned to accept it.

When I go gray, I'm not going to be able to see it that much. I won't be salt and pepper: I'll be like salt and the white pepper you can buy.

I'm not intimidated by how people perceive me.

How girls perceive themselves is interesting, and how they act when they're looking in the mirror.

I've been working on the way my originality, my body, my face, my original form is perceived by me.

I don't think I'm the best-looking actress around. I'm not Katrina Kaif; she is stunningly beautiful. There are some roles that might need a beautiful girl, and there would be a doubt in a director's mind whether he should cast me. But that perception will change with time. I'd like to believe actresses look better with experience.

The thing of it is though that's the only way people know you, they see you in that roll and they see you in person and they only know the perception of what you are.

A large part of my career is due to perception, what people think what I am or should be.

I do feel like in filmmaking you are largely in control of the perception of you. If you want to be seen as the comedic person you've got to write a comedy and go after that.

What shaped my perception about my body and myself was finding better clothes - that's what changed my world.

I am quite comfortable with the way I look and I am not doing anything to change people's perception.

Sometimes I feel limited by people's perceptions of what I can and cannot do, or what I do or don't look like.