Quotes About Self-acceptance

I had bulimia for a few years. I was really sick. I don't know that person; I can't believe that was me.

When you get bullied, you automatically think that you're the reason why you're getting bullied. The reality is, it's about them, not you... I'm all about blocking people. I'm all about saying, 'You know what, I don't need this in my life.'

I know how hard it is to be bullied about a part of yourself that you can't change, or just because of who you are. It can turn you into an angry and bitter person.

I'm comfortable with my body but I don't like my bum - I think it's too big.

I've always had a big bum.

I do feel like I'm a little too much of a bummer sometimes.

I don't have time to sit down and airbush my lumps and bumps. I don't want to either, because they're all a part of my life and what I've been through and who I am.

I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80.

My looks were good enough for what I needed in every possible way but not so much to be a burden.

For me, success is a state of mind. I feel like success isn't about conquering something; it's being happy with who you are.

Success is liking yourself and what you do because if you like yourself, you are happy with who you are and how you live and what you do.

I'm successful every day because I look in the mirror, and I'm happy with who I am.

I'm a gay disabled man who has become very successful. I don't get up in the morning and think I'm inspirational; I just get up thinking that I love horses.

In previous roles, I have thought of my body as 'Betty's body,' and I try not to eat too many dinner rolls - please don't fire me! I'll make crazy choices from the neck up, but from the neck down, it's just me trying to suck it in. And in 'GLOW,' my whole body was required to do a function and not just to look as good as possible in a costume.

I know I don't suck at being me. I'm really good at being me.

Allowing yourself to suck is the hard part of writing music. If you allow yourself to suck, you will probably write something better.

If, however, you have richer pursuits in mind and know that no woman should be judged by how she looks - that everything she brings to the party is more important than the size of her arse - then refuse to be sucked into the never ending whirligig of self-doubting, self-hating madness that is stop-start dieting and crazy new exercise regimes.

When I first started on television, people, and even my own manager at the time, would tell me I had to make all of these changes. But you have to stand up and say, 'There's nothing wrong with me or my shape or who I am; you're the one with the problem!' And when you can really believe that, all of a sudden other people start believing, too.

Now all of a sudden I'm so less interested in pretending to be a lot of other people, and much more interested in being me.

I go eat a sandwich for lunch and have a milk shake and miss going to the gym for 10 days, and somebody snaps a picture of me on the beach, and all of a sudden, I've lost it. Why do I need to be perfect all the time?

It's not like I came out in 'Rolling Stone' and all of a sudden I had a closet full of all the clothes I want.

I kept watching all the different 'Child's Play' sagas, right? Then all of a sudden I decided, 'He's short, I'm short. What a better concept?' It fits. If I can't make the song, why make the movies?

The irony is that the more we fight age, the more it shows. Paint on a 50-year-old face brings to mind a Gilbert and Sullivan comic figure. Smooth the cheeks, and suddenly the ear lobes and hands look out of place. Do we run around in October, painting the gold leaves green?

The American society around me looked at me and saw Japanese. Then, when I was 19, I went to Japan for the first time. And suddenly - what a shock - I realized I wasn't Japanese; they saw me as American. It was an enormous relief. Now I just appreciate being exactly in the middle.