Quotes About Self-perception

If I was fat and had a strong regional accent and was a bloke, I'd be a stand-up. Because I think I'm funny.

My biggest regret is that I've assisted the media in making me into a cartoon character. I don't regret what has happened to me, but I regret the way I have dealt with it.

I was a regular dork. I was a kid who was scrawny and all that, and probably kind of dumb or something. I wasn't unordinary; I wasn't extraordinary.

I can't assume that people see me the way I see myself. I have to show them. But I can't do it in a way where it's too much, where it's rude. I feel like when you're a king, you lead. And I just see myself as a king, or as something more than just a regular human being.

When I am in rehearsal, my tracksuits are carefully placed to disguise parts of my body. I'll think, 'My bum looks big today, so a cardigan will hide it.'

Mirrors are part of my life and an ever-changing source of delight, displeasure or even disaster, depending on which one I am looking in. I look in a magnifying mirror when I pluck my eyebrows in the morning, full-length mirrors every day in rehearsal, and I often nervously bring out a compact to check my make-up.

I've met people whose accents have nothing to do with where they were born or raised - they want to reinvent themselves.

In our society, as people pass out of young adulthood, they tend to relate to themselves more in terms of what they are no longer than what they are now, and that's psychologically low-grade devastating.

Back in elementary I used to tell all the girls I was related to Michael Jackson. But as I got older I think it worked for me less and less.

I never thought of myself doing period. When you're in your acting classes, and you think about the kind of roles you want to play, it's always 'modern relationship drama'-type things.

There was never a perception that I was second-class relative to boys. That gave me confidence.

I can only say this with all relative humility: I saw myself as a Beatle.

When you're 12, you have no gauge for what's hip or not hip - or even who you are.

I got my boobs done because I wanted to even out my lower half, and I thought that would take the focus away from my hips.

I think I probably think about myself as an actor, which is the way most people do. I think I'm good, I don't think I'm great. I think I would hire somebody else to play me in the movie about me.

I don't think anyone is hiring me because I look like Chris Hemsworth.

Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.

I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it's not like I am hopeless.

I certainly don't have horns growing out of head.

I'm not this horrible, evil person.

Truth is, there's never really been anything so horrible said about me that I haven't either thought of or said to myself.

I think I'm a decent-looking guy. Sometimes I can look great, and other times I look horrifying.

I definitely don't think that I'm hot doo-doo. I don't.