Quotes About Self-acceptance

When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.

I am definitely not like the hottest young actress, the most beautiful or whatever. I have my own thing going.

Sometimes when you're doing fantasy, that's the most important thing, is to be a blank space, because the last thing you want to do ever as an actor is judge yourself or the character or the movie that you're in. You want to just play the moment as best you can. Juilliard helped me do that.

The most important thing that I've learnt is that the perfect body doesn't exist.

The most important thing for me was to never, ever, ever deny it. But I didn't really have the courage to talk about it. I was thinking, The people who need to know I'm gay know.

It's nice to look good, but the most important thing is to be you.

First and foremost, you've got to make yourself happy. Essentially being who you are is the most important thing. When you're after truth, happiness always comes.

You have to be happy with yourself first of all - that's the most important thing.

When you're growing up, the most important thing is to try to not change yourself too much. Be you, because everyone else is taken.

I've always found that the most powerful way to create change is to be myself and not be afraid to express who I am.

We are all anxious to be accepted. But if you have a strong mother and father who tell you that you don't have to dress a crazy way, or hang out with people who are looking for trouble in order to be loved and accepted, then half the battle is over.

I want to motivate people to be natural and to embrace their body and who they are.

It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.

If you can't laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at?

Let her be. So all that is in her will not bloom—but in how many does it? There is still enough left to live by.

Before facing you enemy, you must first face yourself.

People who call others ugly are the ugly ones.

Self-esteem is for sissies. Accept that you're a pimple and try to keep a lively sense of humor about it. That way lies grace - and maybe even glory.

You looked at them and wondered why they were so ugly; you looked closely and could not find the source. Then you realized that it came from conviction, their conviction. It was as though some mysterious all-knowing master had given each one a cloak of ugliness to wear, and they had each accepted it without question.

I sold my elegant blackness to all those childhood ghosts and now they pay me for it.

Her color is a cross she will always carry.

I wonder if the person he wants to marry is me or a black girl? And if it isn't me he wants, but any black girl who looks like me, talks and acts like me, what will happen when he finds out that I hate ear hoops, that I don't have to straighten my hair, that Mingus puts me to sleep, that sometimes I want to get out of my skin and be only the person inside-- not American-- not black-- just me?

No matter how you feel you have to act like you are very popular with yourself; very relaxed and purposeful very unconfused and not like you are walking through the sunshine singing in chains.

I never said I didn't want to marry. It just didn't happen-Iam not the sort of lady a man chooses to marry, for I am too plain and too serious. Now I am reconciled to being on my own.