Quotes About Self-perception

I was ill, and everyone could see it but me.

Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able to maintain until I got to the grammar school.

If you're an actor, there's going to be a sense of fantasy about yourself, especially in the celebrity world we live in today. You give the illusion of being in control, sexy, at ease, with never a difficult moment. Those are the basic lies that all celebrities tell. For me, they're the more dangerous lies to come to terms with.

Maybe I'm too masculine. Casting directors cast in their own, or an idealized image. Maybe I don't look like anybody's ideal.

Boys and boys' body image and clothes have become just as important an issue for boys as for girls.

Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.

I love the chocolate boy image. I love my heartthrob image.

In a way, you kind of get caught up in whatever image of yourself you think is out there.

I don't have a problem with my image; it's other people who do.

My hair got lighter, and I gradually went blonde. I liked it. Had more fun. But my image of myself in my head is this dark-haired person.

Many people have this image of me. For a long time, I cared about that.

I consider myself sexy. But the sexy image doesn't bother me, and I don't think it detracts from my singing.

Media images are so important to young people feeling positive about themselves.

Most of us, when imagining an All-American, wouldn't picture a man who looked like me. Not even I would.

I learned the importance of being confident. I think that at the end of the day, it's not so much about what you look like - it's really about the way that you feel. That resonates with people.

Am I impressed by myself? Nah, not really.

I clearly haven't made a good enough impression on people. My go-to line when it's the resume game is that I'm either Chris Evans or Ryan Reynolds.

People have different impressions of themselves, and where reality lies is somewhere in between.

I'd been involved with stand-up before improv, so I already thought highly of myself as being a funny person. I never thought I wasn't funny.

You always think you're better than you are in the beginning.

I know that I'm inadequate, but I never thought that at seventeen. I thought I was doing the best I could. I thought I was being idealistic.

I am kind of an undecipherable commodity to a lot of people, including myself.

I doubt that Donald Trump would be happier... if he was a different person. But Trump is always telling people how great his life is and about all the great things that he's done, and that's also all about his income. And that's also what we found. If you ask people how their lives are going, as a whole, it seems they tend to point to income.

I have a feeling that about 90% of my life has been shaped by my voice, both as an embarrassment and as an advantage. There was always the terrible incongruity of this deep voice barreling out of this little body. Somewhere in the back of my mind I was aware that it was ludicrous, that it took on an importance that wasn't really there.