Quotes About Self-esteem

I wouldn't get asked to dances because I wasn't as petite and cute as the other girls.

I went through a really good-looking phase from birth to 9. And then things went crazy. I don't know what happened, but between 9 and 14 it was really, really rough. I didn't have a lot of friends. The only ones who were nice to me were the theater kids. And they were like, 'You can come and join us. No one likes us.'

I was 15 on American Idol, and everybody had something to say. It was like I had my really awkward phase on national television, you know?

Being a woman, I want to look pretty in every phase of my life.

I like seeing how I can look in a photo.

When you photograph someone, you have to make them feel good, and you know that they want to look good. It's the same relationship that you have when you apply makeup on somebody. We're almost like shrinks.

And sometimes, when you feel low on yourself, that's just when you have to go out there and be photographed or do a scene where you're hot stuff. You're always working on it.

A good photographer can make you look incredible, even when you're not feeling very sexy.

It's not easy for most girls to stand in next-to-nothing and listen to photographers and stylists commenting on how they look.

I lost count of how many times photographers and designers would tell me to lose a bit of weight, especially as I got a little older and my body started to develop.

You become a model once you go through hair, makeup, and Photoshop.

I have no physical genius about me. I can't dribble a ball and run at the same time, I can't do lay-ups - I'm not an athlete. But my experience as a kid was, I was made fun of so much that what I did then, is, I wouldn't participate. And I think I cheated myself out of a lot of fun.

I make a point to never, ever point out my physical flaws... this is advice I give to women as often as I can. People don't notice the things we see in ourselves that we hate, so why direct them to it?

I think for a girl to be strong, it doesn't have to involve being physically strong.

Even if I aspired to be in showbiz, I felt physically inadequate being compared to my parents.

Had more confidence than I probably should have in high school. But I do remember feeling like I wish I could physically mature a little faster, fill out. In college it started to happen a little bit more, and my confidence started to grow - then I got out to L.A., and that got squashed immediately.

I don't like my physique at all.

I don't like my physique. Who does?

My eyes are at different levels, and my right ear's a bit bigger than my left - which showed up particularly in school photographs - so my mother used to call me her 'little Picasso.'

The cologne you pick should make you feel good when you go out with it. I think confidence comes across more than any other of our attributes.

High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future; self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself.

I think, so often, we can let our circumstances dictate what our value is. And I have to remember that my value is the same whether I'm in the dirt or I'm picked up and dusted off.

I think kids growing up, if they were picked on and feeling inferior at 12, they're going to feel that way at 72. You just deal with it better. I'm serious.

It is soul-destroying to have your work and physical appearance picked to pieces.