Quotes About Self-acceptance

I'm on the patch right now. Where it releases small dosages of approval until I no longer crave it, and then I'm gonna rip it off.

I wanted to make an album that sounded like a release of inhibitions, really getting away from the idea that you have to be anything other than in that moment.

My looks mean nothing to me. If anything, they are a hindrance.

I can't look hip, but I don't want to be hip.

I started singing because it was a natural evolution in hip-hop to me. Without Prince, I wouldn't have embraced that. I wouldn't have been able to embrace me.

I was a 'straight-size' model from 13 to 16, but I was eventually dropped by the agency because my hips were too big.

I look back and I have always been big and curvy. Our family all have big arms, bigger legs, bigger hips and bum. That's just the way we're built.

There's no denying it: I was a crappy baby who failed his way into this world, and I've been making the best of it ever since.

I'm not stereotypically Canadian. I don't really follow hockey. I don't feel like anything other than myself, basically.

Stop holding your truth; speak your truth. Be yourself. It's the healthiest way to be.

Honestly, if the worst these people can say about me is that I'm gay, then I think I'll be fine. I can handle it.

I have people in my life who will say, 'Honey, you're trying too hard.' I like being saucy, but I'm 73 and a half. I'm still trying to find my way between matronly and coltishness.

Honey, I am going to my grave with my eyelashes and my makeup on.

I'm accepting of who I am and how diverse I am and honoring that.

It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.

Wearing one hoop earring and playing with the androgyny - that's who I am. That's what I like to do. And I feel the world should see that. I'm not going to put a shield up or be more feminine to make people feel comfortable.

I know that I'm an actor and I guess I could kind of put on an act, but it takes so much more time to be someone you are not. I feel so much better just being comfortable with myself and hopefully girls will accept that.

I just don't touch my brows! Hopefully, leaving them be will pay off so that I still have them in the future.

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it's not like I am hopeless.

I certainly don't have horns growing out of head.

I used to get these horrible feelings; like, I just wanted to rip my body apart, and I don't want to have to go through that experience again. It's really, really awful.

The idea of getting old is horrific, but I don't want to make it worse by becoming a grotesque caricature. A lot of people have made that mistake of trying so hard to hang on to their looks that they make themselves look really scary.

It felt as if my body was, like, literally betraying me because I went from a very athletic, straight-up-and-down little kid to a very curvaceous woman, and it was just horrifying to me.

Knowing and being secure in yourself keeps you from being held hostage by the approval of others.