Quotes About Self-perception

When I feel better looking in the mirror, it makes me feel more uplifted. I feel like what that image has been has shifted in different ways, and that's probably why I'm always changing: because I start getting bored, and I don't like feeling locked into anything.

I don't like catching myself in the mirror because it's like, 'Oh, self.'

I'm never going to wake up and look in the mirror and think, 'Yes, I'll go out and meet people.' Most of the time, you wake up, look in the mirror, and want to give up. And that doesn't change. It isn't awful; it's just the way I feel.

Sometimes, I can be crying my eyes out, wanting to die, and then I'll walk by a mirror and see myself and just bust out laughing.

At the end of the day, we all look in the mirror and tend to see our own self-perceived flaws.

I can't look at the mirror beyond two minutes. I don't know what to look at. What is the point of looking at yourself? You can't change your face.

I've never mouthed a dialogue in front of the mirror. I only peep in to check my hair.

For years, I hated myself. I covered the mirrors in my house. I literally couldn't have a mirror in my room.

I love mirrors.

I try to avoid mirrors.

I've said this before, but I've always felt more comfortable playing the guy who thinks he's the hot shot or thinks he's the greatest and is so far from it, you know? The misguided character. That's always more interesting to me - especially with a comedy. I've always felt inside more like a character actor.

I've always felt a little misrepresented in the world.

Often people would mistake me for white when I was younger, and I didn't correct them; there would be a period of time that they just thought I was.

When I was a kid, I was always mistaken for a girl.

People say I have a scary face. I find that to be a mixed compliment.

I felt very comfortable playing Don Draper, because I knew that Don Draper is a character - that Dick Whitman is playing Don Draper. I felt very comfortable in that manufactured-confidence mode. He himself is manufacturing it.

I don't think I fit the Marilyn Maxwell mode.

I would never think of myself as a role model.

I don't think of myself as a role model.

But I don't really see myself as a role model. I'm not a dictator, or someone who wants to be adored!

I'm not as beautiful as a model.

I'm very sensitive about being held up as some sort of example. I don't consider myself any sort of role model at all. I have great advantages over many other working women, and my schedule allows me more time with my kids than many working women have.

I'm a size 4. In modeling, that's often too big.

I was not considered beautiful at all. Really. And this is what all models say. But I'm still not considered that beautiful in my country. I don't know the beauty ideal where I come from - but it's not me.