Quotes About Self-perception

We don't want to eliminate the ego completely. Otherwise we'd be wandering around the house each morning, drinking coffee for hours, saying, 'Who the hell am I?' We need the ego to sustain a sense of identity.

No matter how dilapidated, scarred and mutilated your body, I have always found you beautiful, for it is the soul beneath I seek.

Most so-called 'black' people do not feel themselves at liberty to simply turn off or ignore their allotted racial designation, whether they would like to or not.

The Ricky that the public see, whether it be on screen as a character, in public, or on social media, is very outgoing, and I'm a bit of a class clown. Then those who are closest to me know that I can be very sensitive. I can be quite insecure about myself.

With social media and all the new technology, there's just more interfaces around and reminders to constantly be working on our body.

With a fractured sense of self, we come to depend on what people feed back to us - often mediated through social networks - not what we are. We have complex identities but may become less able to act as a subject - confident in what we really are.

I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.

Our identities really are a constant negotiation between the story we tell about ourselves and the narrative our societies like to recite.

I knew I wasn't going to be any great shakes as an actor - the way I looked, I would play the soda jerk or the friend of a friend.

I'm skinny, but a soft skinny. I have strong legs, but my arms are like pea pods with single peas for elbows.

Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.

I sang in the glee club and church choir, but I never sang a solo. I never thought of myself as a singer, and that might have crossed your mind, too.

I have heard some people say I have a low profile. Why should somebody be high profile, anyway? I am just doing my job.

I think that girls are always expected to have opinions about each other, and maybe I don't have an opinion about some things, you know?

Everybody goes home at the end of the day and looks at themselves in the mirror and sometimes they see things that they want to see that they like, and sometimes they see some things that they don't like.

You can wish to have an Oscar someday or some other award, but Life Achievement? You don't see yourself that way.

Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.

You know you're old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you're barefoot.

How impossible it is to forget the stories we tell ourselves, even when the truth should super-cede them.

Learning to love my inner and outer beauty wasn't an easy road. I still don't always love the reflection I see in the mirror, but I have learned that my outer appearance does not define me.

I think the way the sun shines on you has nothing to do with the sun but everything to do with you.

You don't have to go out your way to validate or prove your worth to anyone who doesn't see YOUR reflection when they look in the mirror.

Be aware of yourself without thinking or looking in the mirror

To the ordinary, opposite, means hatred. Every person sees themselves as love. To the extraordinary, opposite means opportunity.