Quotes About Self-perception

A good photographer can make you look incredible, even when you're not feeling very sexy.

It's not easy for most girls to stand in next-to-nothing and listen to photographers and stylists commenting on how they look.

From birth until I went to art college when I was 19, there are perhaps less than a dozen photographs of me.

I never like photos of myself in the beginning. I live with them for three months, put them in a drawer, take them out and look again. I hate the way I look, but of course it's really not that bad.

Some people look at my photos and think maybe I'm feeling frazzled, but I really want to tell them I'm just having a bad hair day!

I hate when people say I Photoshop myself.

My physical appearance is very average.

Had more confidence than I probably should have in high school. But I do remember feeling like I wish I could physically mature a little faster, fill out. In college it started to happen a little bit more, and my confidence started to grow - then I got out to L.A., and that got squashed immediately.

In the movies, there's this idea that you're only desirable if you're physically dazzling.

I wasn't good-looking like the heroes. But I had a good physique having been a goalkeeper. I was like a panther.

I can play piano, and I write everything on piano, but I don't really feel like a piano player, necessarily.

I guess I still feel that I'm a comedian; if I had to pick one thing that I feel like I could do, it would be that. That doesn't mean that I like it, but I feel that's what I am.

I think kids growing up, if they were picked on and feeling inferior at 12, they're going to feel that way at 72. You just deal with it better. I'm serious.

Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.

I see pictures of myself and I always knew that what I was feeling didn't look like that guy in the pictures.

If you look at all the pictures of women in magazines, everybody's got a forehead that looks like a billboard. Completely blank.

I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.

I know I play into that image out there, but I try to say it is a fantasy. I look at my own pictures and wish I could look like that. There are probably five people in this whole entire world who actually look like that.

I remember, the first few times I modelled, other girls laughed at my big behind. I felt like a fat pig, even though I really wasn't. When you are 15 and other girls nick-name you a 'little piggy' and 'fatty,' you believe them.

Whatever labels are being pinned on me have nothing to do with me.

My brothers used to call me Bob. They'd laugh at me, and I didn't get it. I'm 13 years old at the time, and then one day my brother's friend says, 'You know what Bob stands for? 'Booty on back.' You're fat.' Like my butt was so big I could reach for my wallet over my shoulder. And I broke down.

If I had my way, I wouldn't be sharing my personal life online. I'm a private person. At home, I don't wander around shirtless, flexing my muscles. I roam around unshaven, with my hair disheveled. Unfortunately, people perceive you differently. It's okay; they're free to speculate.

I don't care what people think about me. When I look in the mirror, I wanna like what I see.

Guys never looked at me. I always had crushes on older seniors who never looked at me. So, when I tell directors that I wanna play that girl who gets rejected, they're like, 'Why?' I tell them it's because I relate to that girl much more than being the girl who makes jaws drop when she walks into a room.