Quotes About Self-perception

I was my worst critic ever.

I am very critical about the way I look.

I certainly don't stay out of the sun, and I also don't, as some of my critics have said, put on blackface as a performance.

We're our own worst critics.

When I was younger, I was so damn pretty, I looked like a girl, so I understand why guys didn't like me.

I never thought of myself as a Broadway actress. I'm not really a singer or a dancer.

I sat at the popular table, but I always felt really geeky.

I am not comfortable at all with this tag of being dubbed 'the richest Indian' and all the attention that follows for the reason.

But now all of a sudden some idiots in Taiwan start to say that they are not Chinese. Their grand parents were Chinese. But for some reason, they feel they are not Chinese.

The crazy thing about me, man, I feel like I'm a normal guy. But, maybe I'm a little abnormal when it comes to talent or something.

Industry is not only driven by talent; it depends upon so many factors. If you need to be successful in this field, one should know how to convert everything into a plus point. If you have a dusky face, make that your plus point.

Honestly, I don't think I'm exceptionally pretty or talented. But the advantage I have is that the performances I do can only be done by me.

I am the black sheep of my family. They are all super talented and intelligent and got proper jobs. Most of my family is in medicine, actually. They are all too clever to be doing what I do.

I don't want to talk about myself, that's for other people to say, so I'm not saying I was so talented.

I'm massively talented, and very, very beautiful in person; the public don't really realise that.

Part of me sees myself as talented, and the other part sees me as strange. Ideas get stuck in your head and nothing changes them. Not even fame.

I've always thought I was talented.

It doesn't matter how many people adore you or how skinny, successful, smart, talented, funny, kind, or compassionate you are. None of it matters if you don't see your wonderful self.

I guess people think I'm aloof just because I don't talk much. I guess I'd think the same thing if I saw myself.

You see, I remember myself as a tall, lanky, awkward college fellow who was cast in school theatricals, on the strength of his height alone.

People would make fun of me because they were acting like I can't dribble. But, in my head, I was always a guard... I was like, 'Yo, I'm tall, but I don't care. I'm not no big man.'

I don't consider myself sexy. I'm kind of a nervous person in general. I'm socially awkward. I'm not tall and sensuous. I usually wear sweats everywhere I go. Oh, and I burp a lot.

I'm not seven foot, I'm about 6'9', 6'10', around that area. It's fine, I really don't care if I'm not as tall as everyone says I am. I'm doing fine.

From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected - I was very tall and skinny, and I didn't look like anybody else, I didn't even look like any member of my family.