Quotes About Self-perception

I finally have the body I want. It's easy, actually, you just have to want a really shitty body.

Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want.

Bugs is who we want to be. Daffy is who we are.

When people say 'You're so beautiful' it makes me want to kill myself! As an actress you want to be seen for what you do, for the characters you can play, otherwise I'd be a model

In our age, if a boy or girl is untalented, the odds are in favor of their thinking they want to write.

I don't think I'd complain if I were overrated.

Most people think of leadership as a position and therefore don't see themselves as leaders.

In short, you have all the social prospects of a garden gnome.

A good self-esteem level is mostly dependant on how we value ourselves without any bias.

The image you currently have of yourself is as high as you can go....

At 31 years of age, Fred West was a big man trapped in a little man's body. He thought himself to be a gynecologist and Warren Beatty look-a-like all rolled into one … the surgeon and the stud.

How you see the world is a reflection of what is within you.

Social scientists sometimes talk about the concept of "identity". It is the idea that you have a particular vision of the kind of person you are, and you feel awful when you do things that are out of line with that vision.

Everyone wants to be glamorous, no doubt, but I was so young when I came here. I was doing all these roles, wearing a mini skirt, running around and acting 'cute.' When I'd watch myself on screen I'd be like 'eeks, I can't believe that's me.'

I had cleavage that would make Dolly Parton proud. But those things are really heavy and I'm pretty slight of frame, so I took them out. No one even noticed.

My real self, the self I have always been from a child, is a loner and nerd, slightly overweight, with a very heavy fringe. That is who I was as a kid. I don't think I will ever be anything other than that.

I think maybe Mr. Sinise and Mr. Bacon have slightly bigger egos than I do.

I always felt slightly grubbier than most American people.

I think I look slightly like a horse. Hand on heart, I think I'm pretty average.

When you use the form of a novel, and you say 'I,' you are also saying 'I' for someone else. When you say 'you,' you are simultaneously in your room writing and in the outside world - you are seeing and being seen seeing, and this creates something slightly strange and foreign in the self.

I feel like I'm more of a slim guy.

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.

When you look at magazines, you feel so inadequate and so small and you feel really imperfect, when you're constantly seeing these images.

I keep reading that I'm diminutive - why do people call me that? I'm 5ft 11in with size 11 feet. I'd actually like smaller feet. It might be a fetish, but I do like graceful feet, and small ones lend themselves to grace.