Quotes About Self-perception

I've learned to suck in my stomach when photographers are around. I used to read gossip magazines all the time, but I stopped when I started being written about in them and read incredible lies about myself.

I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.

I was a chubby kid, an outsider, and then all of a sudden I shot up to 6 foot 2, and people started calling me handsome. I couldn't accept it; I couldn't see it.

In those days I was mortified, because I was a serious actor in my own mind, and then all of a sudden I'm this hunk.

If you say you're fat, all of a sudden people like you!

Growing up in Holland, I always thought my name was boring, but in the U.S., all of a sudden I have a very cool name.

I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?

All you need is a bad angle and suddenly you're 30 pounds overweight.

I think I've committed the one really bad English crime, which is I've risen above my station. I was supposed to be a pop star, and suddenly I'm claiming that I'm an artist of some kind.

The American society around me looked at me and saw Japanese. Then, when I was 19, I went to Japan for the first time. And suddenly - what a shock - I realized I wasn't Japanese; they saw me as American. It was an enormous relief. Now I just appreciate being exactly in the middle.

I suffer from reverse body dysmorphia. When I look in the mirror I see somebody slimmer. It's quite a shock to see myself on TV, especially on widescreen.

I don't look at myself as suffering.

I am not as bad as people would suggest. Not as good as I would like to be.

I don't want to look like Daisy Duke every day. I don't want to wear a bathing suit every day.

I love a good suit, and when I see photographs of myself in a jacket that doesn't fit me quite right or the sleeves are too long, it drives me insane.

You can't trust your memory. You change it to suit yourself.

I look ridiculous in a three-piece suit - I'm too fat.

One of the reasons I like a suit is because I've never been that keen on my body. The shape a suit presents is always going to be better than anything I can do.

What you see is what you get, and the majority of people in my life that loan me clothes know that they've never seen me in a suit.

Even before I got on 'SNL' I assumed I would do some type of sitcom; I kind of thought that was how I would start. I don't mean to sound arrogant - I just thought I would be best suited to the form.

I look really bad in one of those orange suits with the numbers on the back. It doesn't do anything for me.

I don't think Sir Michael Clarke suits me at all, no.

I've always looked like I have a sort of bad-boy image as Too Short. People take that for face value. I kind of like that. I like the image. It suits me well.

It's really odd that I've got this kind of sullen reputation - I never saw myself that way.