Quotes About Self-perception

I'm European, small, dainty - but I actually consider myself more of a tomboy.

I don't have a ton of talents. I'm not this conventionally attractive TV dude.

I can't have brown hair for some reason. I don't think it goes with my skin tone. The second I see it turn brown in the sun, I dye it black - the blacker the better.

I don't know Bengali perfectly. I don't know how to write it or even read it. I have an accent, I speak without authority, and so I've always perceived a disjunction between it and me. As a result, I consider my mother tongue, paradoxically, a foreign language.

People often think that looking in the mirror is about narcissism. Children look at their reflection to see who they are. And they want to see what they can do with it, how plastic they can be, if they can touch their nose with their tongue, or what it looks like when they cross their eyes.

You grow up and change your look. I feel different from how I did in my Playboy days. Now I think I'm in charge of toning down my look or not.

I'm still a size 10, but it's the toning that's getting me down, and I think it can only get more difficult as I get older. Either one gets very thin and scrawny, or one puts on poundage; I'm definitely not going to pile on the pounds, so I can expect to end up scrawny.

I eat tons, three full meals a day, and I never go to the gym. When I was a child, my geography teacher said, 'You may be slim now but if you carry on eating like that, you'll end up being really fat.' Fortunately, I really don't think I've changed much in the past two decades, so that teacher was an idiot.

I hate it when people talk about Tony Curtis and say: 'His real name was Bernie Schwartz... ' That was just the name that he was given at birth. It's not the person he lived his life with, and became.

I don't care about my legacy. It's too late. My enemies will create it, and they'll push it.

I couldn't care less what anyone's 'perception' of me is. I'm too long in the tooth to care.

I've got a short torso and long legs, so I tend to wear longer tops and things that sit on my hips.

But I've always been fascinated with that prettiest-girl-in-the-class person that I never was, getting inside her head and showing that she's just as tormented and messed up as everybody else.

I used to believe that George Michael was a total actor. It was self-defeating, because it made me also feel fraudulent.

I've always said I think I'm a totally normal guy.

I always had really long swimmer's arms. The last to totally go is always my thighs and butt, but my old body is there somewhere.

But I had no idea what I looked like. Children may feel epic and large to theyselves and yet be only scraps to view.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us." At

It is also because the brain stores––and wires in––repeated messages, that you end up believing things about you that you tell yourself most often. The complete 'you' that you believe you are today, is the combined result of years of messages, both from the world around you and, most importantly, from your own self-talk.

The more you think about yourself in a certain way, the more you will think about yourself in that same certain way!

Your self-image is the way you see yourself, how you feel about yourself.

To get in touch with different aspects of your self-image, begin to ask yourself "How do I feel about myself right now?

If you can't see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror.

Don't tell me you're not beautiful. You're the kind of beautiful the blind would see if we could figure out some way to give them three seconds of sight.