Quotes About Self-perception

I'm the son of a former billionaire, but I'm just a working man.

Am I allowed to call myself working-class now? Because obviously I'm now very rich.

I shopped for body shapers for the first time in my life and I was horrified. They were thick - it was like wearing workout clothes and they all had a leg band on one side that showed through the pants.

In the United States, workouts tend to focus on body image and how you look. For me, it's really all about the brain.

Having been labelled at school and in the workplace as 'sassy,' 'feisty,' 'aggressive,' 'hard' and 'dramatic,' I started to believe these stereotypes. I self-stereotyped and became sure I would eventually become 'too much' for whoever I was with.

I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.

I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don't believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.

Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.

There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who walk into a room and say, 'There you are' and those who say, 'Here I am'

I don't personally think of myself as an icon, but it's definitely an incredible thing. Scoring 16 goals at the World Cup is something you only usually dream about.

Honestly, I don't really read about myself. I look at the pictures sometimes. Sometimes I'm looking at them, and I'm thinking, 'They could choose some better ones.' But I don't spend time reading about myself because I know what I'm up to. I prefer to read about other people.

I'm just really tiny. People hate me, because I just sit. I'm eating, I'm eating, I'm eating and then I just... sit. And I don't gain a thing.

I'm always looking at my brother and sisters, thinking - do we look inbred, maybe? Maybe a tiny bit.

I get comments all the time about my weight just because I'm really tiny.

It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

It's that I'm 39. I feel hot and sexy, actually... I feel it inside myself. I don't feel dried up and tired and no longer interested in sex is what I'm trying to say.

You won't see a picture of me rolling around in a gutter, but I sometimes have a photo taken when I'm leaving a club looking tired, and there'll be headlines saying, 'She's out of control'. You can't prepare yourself for those things; you just have to shrug them off.

I'll never get tired of being told I sound like Waylon Jennings, but I don't hear it myself.

I don't think of myself as funny. I think of myself as rather grave, actually. And I'm suspicious of fun. I never quite know what that is or how to deal with it or how to generate it. That's my fault. I know it's a burden on the people I'm with. It's tiresome.

In America, everybody thinks they're an entrepreneur. That's the problem. It's not a title that anybody should call oneself.

I got to star in my own movies. I even had my name above the title in some cases. But what am I known for? My bit part.

I don't give myself titles. I don't think of that.

I surf; I skateboard. I'm from Southern California. I never thought I was going to be an actor. And to be honest with you, I never really thought of myself as one.

I don't really consider myself a model, to be honest. I respect designers; I think it's another art, you know.