Quotes About Self-perception

I never thought of myself as a woman leader or Latina leader; I just thought of myself as a leader.

My problem is people seem to laugh at me, but the one that laughs harder than anybody is me.

When not dressed as Conchita I am a man, and a lazy one at that.

I was one of those guys who never wanted to start their own business. I never saw myself as a leader. I saw myself as a great No. 2.

I don't know if any woman is completely happy with the way she leads her life or with the way people treat her.

I never pictured myself being liked by anybody.

I used to edit my pictures and make my lips look even bigger in the editing apps.

I literally think I look bad in every picture.

If I had seen a black woman play Juliet as a little girl, my idea of my place in the world would have been totally different.

I can't imagine having long hair anymore; it's weird.

I guess looking back you're only as good as you think you are. You can lie to yourself and that's what you have to do.

When an actress is younger, she likes to lower her age, but when she is older, she likes to add to her years.

It's so empowering to see yourself as a machine.

It just kills me when these girls look at magazines and wish they could look like that. I try to tell them, 'Nobody looks like that. Everything's airbrushed.'

It feels really strange when I walk by newsstands and I don't see any magazines with me in it!

The thing about my dancing is, I actually think I'm magnificent.

There is a major part of who I am that does not feel like the alpha male.

My brother and I thought we were Donny and Marie, without the talent.

Don't worry, old thing," Sophie said to the face. "You look quite healthy. Besides, this is much more like you than you really are.

A man like me gets used to recognizing himself from the inside. The inside is what I am familiar with. Nor am I much given to studying my outward appearance in the looking glass. It is a curious thing, to see oneself in a photograph. It is a meeting with the outer man.

When I had finished dressing, I took another look in the same long mirror. There was the man who had come from Australia four months ago, a man in a good dark-gray suit, a white shirt, and a navy-blue silk tie; there was his shell, anyway. Inside I wasn't the same man, nor ever would be again.

autobiographical novel. He fancied himself

I feel artificially myself. I'm someone who's supposed to be me.

She wasn't a child who needed imaginary friends. She was imaginary to herself.