Quotes About Self-acceptance

I am a Ford, not a Lincoln.

I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person.

You are changed by the people you are closest to, and this has allowed me to forgive myself for the person I once was.

The quality of the work when I was 16... I've had my issues with it, but I've learned to forgive myself because I was 16 years old.

Forgiving yourself will help with giving yourself strength.

You can't form a character without being completely comfortable with who you are as a person.

I'm really fortunate because, in my career, I haven't had to deal with anybody trying to make me something I'm not.

Fortunately, I've never had to be too critical of my own work, because the world is critical enough.

My face has always been my fortune anyway, not my body.

What I've had to learn is that I'm also fragile.

I'm OK with my appearance. I have made my peace with it after a long and frankly exhausting battle.

Frankly, no one had ever asked me before. My sexuality is something I'm completely comfortable with and open about.

I'm not a control freak.

I'm a big believer in letting your freak flag fly.

Women must be freed from the idea that they always have to stay young and that they must disfigure themselves at a certain age.

I have a lot of friends who say that one of the freedoms of being older is you don't care what other people think, which I don't think is right. You care what other people think, but if you're comfortable in your own skin, that doesn't bother you.

French are what they are without excusing themselves to be.

I never see my movies. When they're on television, I click them away. Hollywood created an image, and I long ago reconciled myself with it. I was the French cliche.

I can live my life, I can be at Disneyland and eat fried chicken, and that's my choice.

I discovered that the world frightens you with your shortcomings, but if you do not worry about it, you are liberated.

Life becomes easier when we stop aping people. Which is on all fronts, be it looks, body shape, or anything.

When you feel fulfilled, you feel happy - You feel love. When it comes to love, you always come first. If you don't love yourself, you can't truly love anyone else, either. I always tell myself to stay in love.

Now, I'm not 100% there, but every day I wake up, I'm happy being me, and I just feel fulfilled.

Eating disorders are shrouded in secrecy, and there are so many things I felt very ashamed of that I could never talk about. Even though I have fully recovered, there were still things that I needed to go through again and work through.