Quotes About Self-acceptance

I didn't overcome my shyness. I am still shy.

Being half-Palestinian comes with its own challenges, especially after 9/11 and also, working in Hollywood. But denying my own father, the three siblings I have on my father's side, I would essentially be destroying my own essence. So I decided I'm going to be me.

People want me to say that I'm sick of playing Leia and that it ruined my life. If my life was that easy to ruin, it deserved to be ruined.

There's always a side of me that goes, 'I'm just a nerd.' I never look at myself and say, 'I'm beautiful.' Like anyone else, I see the flaws. Guys don't do that as much as women. But you have to learn to appreciate and accept and love yourself as you are.

It's really grinding to always play out of both sides of your mind and always be thinking what will offend people. Or what won't. But I'm strong enough to deal with that. I own that I'm freakish in my way.

I'm not embarrassed that I'm mixed. I'm not ashamed that I'm mixed. I very much embraced both sides.

Sierra' is me being a plus-size woman.

My skin's not a normal sight. When a photographer says, 'I don't know what it is, but that's just not it...' I know. They like the different colours of my skin. They're not getting them with a particular outfit.

I was obsessed with my lips and used to think, 'They're not big enough!' Looking, back, I'm totally embarrassed. I'd lost sight of what a normal face looked like.

When I was young, I did Baby Guess and Guess Kids - Paul Marciano saw me when I was a baby and decided I was going to be his next whatever. After Guess Kids, my mom made me stop. She would not let me sign with an agency until I was 17 because she wanted me to be a normal kid and accept myself for who I was.

When I rock my signature afro look, I feel like I'm channeling my inner '70s Cynthia.

I think the real problem is all the negative connotations people have with that term. They think, 'Oh my God! I don't want to be 'plus-size!'' But people attach too much significance to terms. We can't let these terms define us or our beauty.

I've heard it said that I'm silencing the critics so many times but it's not that: I don't have to prove myself to anyone.

Don't be afraid to look silly.

Sometimes I'll post goofy photos of myself on Instagram without make-up or making silly faces. I don't always look like a little Barbie doll.

People should dress the way they want. Any rules for age or shape are silly.

Miss Piggy's a big girl, and glamorous, and people think it's silly when I say she's a role model to me, but she was.

I keep my hair gray, so I like silver and platinum. For women who dye their hair, they can wear whatever they want.

I am who I am. I am not very complicated. I am simple and an introvert.

I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on.

The greatest lesson I have learned in life is that I am enough simply because I have been given life. Growing up, I constantly found myself trying to please others because I wanted to be included and validated. I expended myself completely.

I am neither a rabbit nor a savior. I am simply Roberto Baggio.

The hardest thing in the world is to be ourselves.

Maybe there is something deeply wrong with me," Carol tells me. "It's just like my mom used to say, I am too difficult to love.