Quotes About Self-perception

And believing that we are broken is the same as being broken. It means we experience ourselves that way. That perception shapes our reality. It is an illusion we must strive to avoid, as great misery comes from such a belief.

How is it you're so beautiful and so fucking ugly inside! You know it wouldn't take much to make your outside look like your inside!! I could just chop your brain out! It doesn't deserve such a pretty body...

They are still the pictures of myself I like best, for they convey that confidence of youth I no longer possess, especially in front of a camera. I

I have body hang-ups - but I work the best of what I've got.

If I dress like a schlump, I think like a schlump and I work like a schlump.

I really just can't watch myself. I see all the machinery at work and it just drives me nuts.

I have very, very specific ideas about how I want to do my work and how I want to be perceived and to the point of ridiculousness sometimes.

Often you read something about yourself, and either you've been ironic, and that doesn't work in print, or it paraphrases something that you said, and has a different meaning.

I want to change the bad boy image that has stuck for a bit because I don't think I am at all how I have been portrayed. I would like that to change because it's awful to hear and read what is said of you.

Just as black and white, when mixed, make grey, in many ways that's what it did to my self-identity: it created a murky area of who I was, a haze around how people connected with me. I was grey. And who wants to be this indifferent colour, devoid of depth and stuck in the middle? I certainly didn't.

I paint and I draw and I write and I do other things too, and recently some people at school were asking if I'd ever publish any of my work. But I almost feel like I would have to publish it under another name because there's a definition of me out there that feels kind of stuck in the moment when it was formed.

If you try to talk about yourself honestly when you're an actor, you come off as stuck on yourself.

Imagine if somebody said your nose is too big or your ears stick out. For me, it was my neck was too short. It stuck with me all my life.

I've always felt, pound for pound, I'm one of the best guys around; but you get stuck in people's eyes in a certain way, and it takes an imaginative director who will look at you and realize you can play different kinds of parts because you are an actor.

I don't really consider myself a stud.

I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student.

I studied political science and international relations, so I never considered myself an artist.

I was so beautiful but I didn't realise it for years. I saw pictures of myself and even I was stunned.

I don't think my eyes are stunning as some people's are.

I was Renee Zellweger's fat doppelganger. If she ever played in a movie where she needed to be fat, apparently I could be her stunt double.

Though my parents assured me over and over again that I wasn't stupid or slow, I sensed that my dyslexia was now a stigma on all of us.

When I was labeled stupid, that scarred me forever.

I had no confidence at school. I was not a good student and I really thought I was pretty stupid. Just dumb.

I don't consider myself any great sage of fashion or style, whatever people may want to think.