Quotes About Self-acceptance

I have been a woman for 46 years and I only recently realized I can't change it and I like it.

Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

'Fat' was a terrible, terrible word for me growing up. When I was able to reclaim it and call myself fat and identify with it, that was the best moment ever. That was the moment I really started to feel free.

I want to reclaim who I am.

I do not know at what moment in life, if ever, we realise that we are neither George Sands nor Juliets. Of course, if we are not beautiful, we recognise early that beauty is nothing.

I suppose what happened is that I spent my whole life wanting to be cool but eventually came to recognise the mechanism of how coolness works. So it's not really that I don't want to be cool anymore - it's more like I've come to realise that coolness doesn't exist the way I once assumed.

Nobody's perfect, everybody is flawed in a way, and to recognize your own flaws and to just enjoy them is something that I try to do for myself. I do that all the time.

Some people are more fluid than others at just being themselves and recognizing what's good about themselves.

To me, self-esteem is not self-love. It is self-acknowledgment, as in recognizing and accepting who you are.

At one point, I even thought, 'Oh, I'll take diet pills.' I tried it for one day, and I thought my heart was going to explode. It's awful, and I would never, ever recommend it.

I used to diet all the time as a kid. I started dieting in, like, kindergarten. I don't recommend it, but I also don't judge people who want to do things with their body.

I'm proud of all our records. Even the crap ones.

Self-compassion is how we recover.

When I was younger, the red carpet used to terrify me because it's not about playing a part: you're not in a film pretending to be someone - you are yourself. It's intimidating.

I used to hate getting dressed, getting in front of the camera and walking down the red carpet. It bothered me because I felt like I couldn't be what they wanted me to be. Now it's still not my favorite thing, but I get through it a lot easier because I know that my work brings value to who I am.

I didn't even know I was considered plus-size until I was on the red carpet here in L.A. one day and a lady said, 'How do you feel about being a plus-sized girl in Hollywood?' I was like, 'What's she talking about?'

Keeping this red hair is not simple.

It's brilliant to me, I absolutely love having red hair. I love being ginger and I love my specific colouring.

People need to work on what self-love is and redefining self-love... it comes from within: who you are and how you carry yourself in this world.

I like to refer to myself as 'The George Clooney of the Lane Bryant set.'

I'm probably not going to develop to a final state as an artist. Like, become better and better, more and more refined. Become 'pure.' I don't think that's going to happen to me, because I don't really see that as something I want to explore.

Usually when I am in a movie that is about to come out, if people don't love it, that is fine - I can handle it.

The way I move, the way I think, the way I handle myself - it might be by accident, but it's who I am, and I've just learned to own that.

Conventionally handsome is not really where I'm at.