Quotes About Self-perception

It's not the job of this town to make me feel happy. It's not this town´s fault that I don't feel I fit in. It doesn't matter where you are in the world, because it's about where you are in your head. It's about the other world I inhabit. The world of dreams, hope, imagination, and memories. I'm happy up here, and because of that I'm happy up there too

There's the person who you think you should be and there's the person who you really are. I've lost sense of both.

Forty-three years old, he is handsome and he knows it, but it's not a view that is held with arrogance. His opinion on his looks are merely understood with the same logic he applies to tasting a fine wine. The grape was merely grown in the right place, under the right conditions. Some degree of nurturing and love mixed with later moments of being completely trampled on and walked all over.

Me visto con ropa que hace demasiados años que llevo, de una talla que no consigo variar, que me pone enferma, y que me ha hecho perder la voluntad de hacer algo respecto a... nada, o nada respecto a algo.

Sometimes you forget that you are people's hero as well. People do look up to you and I'd forgotten that because, to me, I am just a normal lad.

Every once in awhile I like to play dark ladies, crazy ladies, but most often I look for characters that are strong, intelligent, caring - usually earth women, because that's basically how I see myself.

I wasn't a ladies' man.

I don't feel like a first lady.

I'm a character actress. It doesn't mean I can't do leading roles; I don't think of myself as a leading lady.

I was a lady gunda in school. Everyone was scared of me, and I was really short and round.

I don't ever necessarily feel masculine or feminine. I just feel... I don't know. Like, when I'm wearing women's clothes, it's not like I'm dressing like a lady, a woman; it's just like I'm doing whatever I want.

I just don't like to be called a 'woman' or a 'lady' because I don't feel like either a woman or a lady. I feel like a musician.

In high school, I definitely fancied myself an intense guy, which is so lame.

I wasn't the cool kid in school, but I wasn't the lame one. I knew I wasn't cool, so I called myself lame, and that's what made me cool in front of the cool kids.

I still get excited about meeting celebrities, because I don't think I'm a celebrity myself.

I'm the shyest megalomaniac you're ever likely to meet.

I thought I was pretty average height. And then it just clicked to me - 'Yo, you're undersized.' I guess when I got older and my body started hurting, I'm like, 'I'm not as big as I thought I was.' So I always played with the mentality that I was bigger than I actually was.

Lots of boys pick strong messages about who they are and who they want to be from the media.

I'm used to people commenting on my body, even women I have just met.

I never really thought I was a method actor or anything like that.

No, I never thought about my image. It interests me that there are people who do, that they seem to be methodical about it.

I looked real Neanderthal. I could have been Mexican, I could have been black; I could have been anything.

I'm a Mexican girl from California, and I never grew up thinking I could be in a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. I didn't really see myself in that. Not that I didn't grow up loving Rodgers and Hammerstein, but I don't know - I just never put myself there.

I'm from the Midwest, so I always assumed, 'Well, I have to think badly of myself, because that's being humble.'