Quotes About Self-acceptance

No one is perfect. I would never claim to be that person.

For the longest time, I still tried to hold up this act - this nice-guy, superhero, role-model persona - that wasn't really me and wasn't serving me.

Unless they're superhuman, nobody's going to look perfect all the time.

I work on my body to stay fit, but that does not make me superior to anyone. I am a forthright and hardworking girl.

I don't feel inferior in the slightest to anybody - or superior to anybody, let's get that clear. But I do feel different.

The first relative I came out to was my aunt Teri, a superior court judge in San Francisco. Her reaction surprised me. 'I've known you were gay for years,' she said. From that moment on I was comfortable in my own skin.

At the end of the day, I know I'm not Superman.

I'm certainly not a supermodel.

I'm not a supermodel. I make the best of what I've got.

I've never pretended to be a supermodel.

I'm not one of these new supermodel girls on Instagram in bikinis. I'm different, but that's okay.

I've realized through the years that I just find happiness in other things, whether it's my dogs or my friends or, like, looking at the sunset. So if I were to wish for something else, it would just to be happy all the time, to have a superpower of not letting things affect me, and to be true to who I am, always.

I do feel like I have the superpower of not caring about my body as an actor.

I discovered that my insecurities and my flaws were things that I actually need to embrace, and I let them become my superpowers.

When you don't have a support system, and you're constantly being bullied for who you are, and you begin to not accept yourself for who you are, it's a distraction from schoolwork. It's a distraction from learning and from growing.

People sometimes say, 'Oh, you were a movie star,' and I'm like, 'No, I was a supporting actress.' I wasn't an A-list actress, and I'm fine with that. I'm proud of what I did in film.

I suppose that I'm fairly comfortable with the clown hat on.

I am always plagued with 'I'm not skinny enough, I'm not in shape.' I am not naturally this super-svelte kind of girl. I'm okay with that in my personal life. But it is kind of hard at times. I feel inadequate, I suppose?

Life is not quantifiable in terms of age, but I suppose in my fifties I am more grounded and more at ease in my own skin than when I was younger. I have a confidence that I didn't have before from the experiences I've had.

I never felt that I was supposed to be white. Or black, either. My parents just wanted to let me be who I needed to be.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

I'm not sure if this is a good thing or not, but I'm not a very competitive person.

I prefer to focus on who I am as a person and what I stand for. We all want to look good, but I find it more rewarding to work on feeling good and going a bit deeper beneath the surface.

I have not had any plastic surgery in any shape or form. No implants. And my hair is not dyed.