Quotes About Self-perception

For people who are very curious to know about what's wrong with my stomach, this is the natural stomach of a person, who has lost 15 kgs of weight, this is how it looks when it is not photoshopped or surgically corrected.

Being pregnant changes your body image. You watch your stomach expand. If that happened without being pregnant you'd be in deep distress! But because you're excited about what's going to happen, you view yourself differently.

When The Stone Roses first came out, the early reviews called me 'simian.' I had to look that up at the time.

So I think it's - what was important to me is that I found that I can't change the fact that people already have made an opinion about me. But I don't think that should stop me from trying to correct some of the misperceptions that are out there.

I can't control what people think of me, and I stopped really caring a long time ago.

It can be very frustrating and very deflating to be constantly defined and described by other people, so I've stopped reading anything written about me, and I find it much healthier. I just sort of concentrate on what I do and don't worry too much about that.

I think I have a part of myself which is a woman. When girls are together, they speak completely differently than when there is a guy around. But, with me, they don't see this masculine thing stopping them, and there is not this boundary.

It's only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I'm skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I'm big, when I was big, I never thought about it.

Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.

When it comes to modeling, I always feel like my body is a myth or a story that is told by other people, and no one knows what my body really looks like.

I don't think of myself as a television producer. Obviously, that's crazy. Because I should. That's what I do. But I don't actually see that as my job. It's why my business cards say 'storyteller.'

If I put on a few pounds, it goes straight to my butt.

I have very curly hair and I straighten it every day - it takes maybe two minutes. I can't imagine anyone having a bigger challenge than I do in the kinkiness that is my crazy 'fro.'

Sometimes I read that I'm not 100 per cent Chinese, because I don't look all that Chinese. That's a strange one - I am Chinese.

I keep forgetting I'm speaking in an American accent sometimes. The dangerous thing is that you end up forgetting what your real accent is after a while! It's really strange; I've never done a job in an American accent before.

I feel like I'm extremely normal. I do have a bizarre face that's a bit out of proportion. I guess that's why some people see me as strange.

I've often been told that I'm a bit strange. I hear that pretty regularly, but it is not how I see myself.

When I look at myself, I see a person who strangely lacks what I consider the ingredients of a personality.

Anytime you see a bit where some stranger does something to me, it's me.

All that nipping and tucking doesn't make you look younger - only stranger.

When you get fat, you get a new personality. You can't help it. Complete strangers ascribe it to you.

In politics, everyone regards themselves as a moderate, because they know some other sumbitch who's twice as crazy as they are.

We are simultaneously gods and worms."—Abraham Maslow

Self-esteem is just the reputation that you have with yourself. You'll always know.