Quotes About Self-acceptance

I was always the 250 pound guy that I was when I was 18 years old coming out of high school.

Skinniness is not your friend when you're over 40. I'd like to gain a good 10 pounds, but I did always have a fat, round face that plagued me when I was young. When I started to make movies, I couldn't look at myself.

I can gain 20 pounds in a heartbeat.

A few years ago, I lost 30 pounds, and people still wanted to criticize. And honestly, I'm happy with myself if I'm a little heavier.

I wasn't always 6' 4'' and 400 pounds.

I don't worry about the camera adding pounds, I am who I am.

When you see Paul Wall, I'm always going to be the same person. I might have on a new grill, I might have on some new jewelry. I might've put on some pounds, I might've lost some pounds. You never know.

If I want to shave my head tomorrow and gain 50 pounds, or grow my hair long and lose 50 pounds, I have the freedom to do that. People will get used to it.

I never thought that I'd be considered to have a good body. I was bony up top and kind of dumpy on the bottom.

It's a constant battle for everybody, but you need to be happy with yourself.

I feel a lot more comfortable being me these days. I'm constantly told that my work is good. A lot of fans and a lot of other artists say my songs and albums mean a lot to them. Isn't that what's important?

I want people to learn from me, see I'm human, and understand that I make mistakes just like they do, but it doesn't have to consume you. You've got to walk through the raindrops, and that's totally what I am trying to do.

Being single is only sad if you have a problem with your own company. I'm content with mine.

I can't change me and I can't change other people's thinking. All I can do is continuously get better. So if I'm doing that, even if somebody doesn't like me or respect me, I don't care.

Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.

You can't control how other people see you or think of you. But you have to be comfortable with that.

Why is it controversial to talk about the fact that fat people deserve to take up space and deserve to be sexy?

It is not easy to pull off your shirt, bare your torso and go beyond it. It needs a lot of conviction. You have to be comfortable in your skin.

Maybe the coolest people are the ones who don't care about being cool.

I have cellulite - and had it even when I was at my absolute thinnest. I'm never not going to have cellulite. People need to just accept that it's there and maybe dress accordingly or use body makeup to cope with it.

Me just putting on whatever I want to wear today, people find confidence in that. But to me, I'm just coping.

I am enormously uncool. I've made a cottage industry of being uncool. And I'm fine with that.

I still don't go to gay bars all that often, but the difference now is that I'm not not going because I'm afraid, but rather I'm not going now because I don't want to get off the couch.

Be who you are. It's easy to feel like you have to blend in, but it takes courage to live your life with conviction and embrace the person that you are.