Quotes About Self-perception

If someone feels they have to live up to a certain image, then I can kind of understand that pressure because I'm considered to be one of those images, and I know how unreal they are.

The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.

I had this ego that was unstable. If you said anything about me good or bad, it really went to my head.

I am not too keen on my nose, I don't like my knees, I hate my ankles, I am unsure about my behind, I don't like my legs at all. I am not too sure about my chin, my forehead is a bit dodgy. But, overall, I can live with it.

My expectations for myself were never high. I had a very unusual way of writing songs and of thinking about music. I wasn't at all like Bob Dylan or Simon and Garfunkel. I was completely different - I didn't have a David Geffen at my side.

Because you know, down deep in my heart, when all is said and done, I still live under the illusion that basically people think of me as an up-and-coming young actor.

I definitely don't see myself as much of a singer, because my upbringing is really based around the guitar, learning chord progressions and that sort of thing. So the singing aspect of what I do has been a secondary adventure.

I'm blessed with nice legs, but I see lots of guys with big upper bodies and pencil legs.

I'm a little top heavy, so I have to pay attention to that area. I think it was from my years of swimming in school when I was a kid and it just overdeveloped my upper body. In fact, when I started modeling, my back was so developed, I could not fit into any dresses.

I am nearly 5ft 7in, which is short for a guy. I have the upper body of a taller man, but my legs are only 28.5in.

I can't watch my first audition because it makes me too upset. I just think it is really sad. I look at myself and don't recognize myself. I do think fame and fortune changes people.

I can be plenty frustrated and not have to constantly portray myself as upset and angry at the world.

I seem quiet. But when I get upset, I talk too loudly. I'm sort of an alarmist.

Outside every thin girl is a fat man trying to get in.

My vigour vitality and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.

In our civilization men are afraid they will not be men enough and women are afraid they might be considered only women.

I never thought I was the most beautiful model out there or the most sexy woman, but I was a hard worker

On days when I do not work, I am working on my image.

I feel more comfortable when I'm lighter - I sleep better, I snore less, I have more endurance when I work out, my arms look better.

I don't consider myself, you know, in real life one of those funny guys. My comedy comes through my work.

I'm the Black Steve Nash.

I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn't picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn't a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you.

The only difference between Benito and Bad Bunny is 16 million followers on Instagram. And the money that Bad Bunny has in the bank. Benito had, like, $7. The numbers are different, but I'm still the same. Even my insecurities remain the same.

I never thought of myself as capable of stirring up - generating - the actual drumroll for a record, you know, all the press.