Quotes About Self-perception

Love isn't any one good thing; it's a very, very strange mishmash of emotions. Your love for somebody is, oftentimes, informed by the terrible things you might believe about yourself, and comparatively, the person you see them as is everything that you're not.

I think people who are compelled to achieve never really think they've achieved... I think the moment you get to a place when you think 'Oh I'm a fashion legend' then that's when you're no longer competitive in your field.

I'm not going to lie: I still have days when I walk by the mirror on my way to the shower and think, 'Oh God, I didn't just see that!'

Oh God, I don't know if I ever really felt beautiful. I don't, really.

For me, I have this tough exterior and these Angela Bassett arms, and people think, 'Oh, my God, Rutina's tough.'

Listen: I'm OK cute. I'm no stunner.

I don't think I'm beautiful. I just think I can scrub up OK.

I'm okay with having bad dance moves.

I think I look okay.

I have always thought of myself as an athlete - even at the ripe old age of 52.

I consider myself just a lovable old man who just loves women. I've reversed 100 percent.

I feel like I look 16 sometimes, which is a bummer, because I would love to date older guys.

You can call me an older woman - I don't mind that at all - just don't call me an old one, because I'm not.

One of the things is, I don't read my own press. I never watch myself.

To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.

I'm always myself. Always. The only difference is that I come off as mean out of drag.

The only difference is that I'm a celebrity, and I'm shown to the world. Apart from that, I think I'm like most women my age.

I think it is easier to hear my voice than see myself onscreen, particularly as the years progress. Watching myself onscreen becomes less and less enthralling.

What people don't normally know about us is the hustle is very real, and it's sorely driven a lot by how we consider ourselves. We don't pay a whole lot of attention to any type of judgment that we might get from outside people. I think that comes from growing up onstage.

I get invited to many more literary festivals than I used to because I'm associated with 'Slumdog Millionaire,' the brand. Many more doors have opened up for me as a result of the global success of the film, although I believe that I'm the same person that existed before it.

The most desirable man in my opinion is Sidharth Shukla and among women, I think of myself as being desirable.

I believe that everyone has a right to have an opinion about things or people, and fortunately, I have been lucky to have heard usually good things about myself. However, I must admit that people can be quite critical about your role also.

Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.

One should not look at anything. Neither at things, nor at people should one look. Only in mirrors is it well to look, for mirrors do but show us masks.