Quotes About Self-perception

It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth.

I think I am a rare breed, a homosexual who doesn't like men.

Man is that guy ripped. I mean, I've got the washboard stomach, too. It's just that mine has about two months of laundry on top of it.

Every man is the hero of his own song.

No really great man ever thought himself so.

I'm always cast in these strange men... that's not me, really.

It is the vanity of women to spend hours in front of the mirror. It is the vanity of men not to bother.

I am sure that nothing has such a decisive influence upon a man's course as his personal appearance, and not so much his appearance as his belief in its attractiveness or unattractiveness.

Sometimes when I hear my voice on tape, I'm like, 'Who is that horrible man?

I may look like a nice Jewish girl from New Jersey, but inside I'm a 50-year-old, heavyset black man with a big thumb, like Wes Montgomery.

A man's worth is what he is divided by what he thinks he is.

Do you know the primary difference between men and gods? ... Gods don't think they can become men

I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man, or any of that. I'm a character actor.

All my life I've been an obese man trapped inside a fat man's body.

I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.

Man, I have had so much plastic surgery, I don't even recognize myself, sometimes. If I catch a glimpse in a window or something, I think it is someone else.

I started drinking Scotch just to be a man.

I am what they call a chubby-skinny guy. I appear to be normal and have the look of an in-shape man, but if we were to go to a pool party I would go with my shirt on.

Democratic institutions generally give men a lofty notion of their country and themselves.

A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to anyone else.

... I felt like a new man; but I was disappointed with the photographic documentation because I still saw always the old self.

Every man is a hero of his own story.

I've never considered myself a leading man, don't look like one, don't want to be one.

If man had not been his own classifier, he would never have thought of founding a separate order for his own reception.