Quotes About Self-perception

I was trained as an actor and taught to believe at a very young age that I could be anything and do anything, and then you find yourself painted into a corner by your own image or persona.

From a young age, I've had a desire to put forward this perfect image, whatever perfect was.

As a young kid I never saw myself as a drummer.

I always felt like Tahliah's a very grown-up name to have. It's a pretty name when you're young, and then I think when I became a young lady, it felt kind of like a lot to grow into for some reason. I don't know. It sounds kind of regal. I never really liked it. I always felt like I couldn't live up to it.

I've always thought like I'm really a 3-feet-high comic trapped in a leading man's body... but then I played Nicholas Nickleby, and suddenly I was heroic.

As a kid, I went by Tray. In college, they called me Hitch. And Trash. And Park. All the usuals.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people.

People feel that I have overachieved, but I feel that, myself, that I work tremendously hard in the gym. I feel almost I have underachieved a little bit.

I am fortunate in having this bone structure because I have a tremendously prominent temple. I like to think that's it's because I'm so intelligent. People say: 'You haven't got a line on your forehead.' I do. It's just the bones are holding them all out, and the cheekbones are holding my face up.

I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.

You are or become what you think you are

If you understand that you are not just your appearance or your physical body, you will be better equipped to handle negative feelings or imperfection regarding your outward appearance

Everyone thinks that they are intelligent even though there is no sign of intelligence.

I am not pretty, I am not ugly, I am not true, I am not false, I am just me, a reality, a conception not a misinterpretation.

I am loving and joyful because I think I am.

Your worth is what you allow it to be.

Everybody's got their opinion on who they think you are or how strong or how weak you are, but at the end of the day all that matters is who you know you are, don't ever forget that.

When you believe in your beauty, only then can everyone see it.

People think that I'm a nice guy.The truth is that I'm so nasty that I don't allow anyone else to hate me, except myself.

I imagine that people see me as they would see me if I were the man that I want to be.

I don't mind people thinking I'm stupid, but I don't want to give them any proof.

Clothes are about manipulations: how I feel, how I want to feel and how I want others to feel about me.

Don't call me a saint; I don't want to be dismissed so easily.