Quotes About Self-perception

If you ask any VC what it takes to be successful, you'll get a description that sounds a lot like himself. There's a preference for self-similar individuals.

I'm the most boring pregnant woman ever.

I see myself as a Premier League player. If I see myself as a Championship player, that's not good enough. You have to aim higher and if you come just short then it's not too bad.

We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled.

What we view in the media - and who presents it to us - does so much to determine how we think, how we feel about ourselves, and how we view the world.

If every senator looks into the mirror and sees a future president, then every president looks into that same mirror and sees himself on Mount Rushmore.

I will never be known as the former President of Zaire.

We Americans think quite highly of ourselves, and nothing makes us think more of ourselves than our romantic view of our presidents.

I don't ever want to believe my own press clippings, good or bad.

Actually, the most entitled people I've met are indie rockers and indie actors, because they really believe their press.

Today's multiracial Americans are at greater liberty to choose how they'd like to be seen, and under less pressure to pass for white.

I don't mean to be presumptuous, but I liken myself to the robber barons.

You have to pretend to be cool, which I never am.

I wouldn't say I always have the talent to do something - I think I definitely probably have a moderate amount of talent - but I can pretend to have confidence or, I guess, charisma... It's so hard to look at myself like that.

I hate people thinking I'm some pretentious fraud.

I used to be prettier than I am, but I think I look better now. I was a pretty boy. Particularly in my early movies. I don't like looking at them so much. There's a sort of pretty thing about me.

Mandy Rose is basically an exaggerated version of myself. It's all about confidence. She's a bit of a mean girl and 'I'm prettier than you and better than you.' I'm not quite like that in real life.

The show was written just for us. We all thought we were the prettiest and the funniest.

As a human, I'd say I'm pretty intermediate.

I don't think of myself as pretty. I am what I am.

You have to know me first to think I'm pretty.

I knew I would never be cast as the pretty girl.

I'm pretty, but I'm not, like, a 'pretty girl.'

Okay, I am happy with the way I look, but I have never, never, ever thought of myself as a 'pretty girl.' Honestly. When I read some of these scripts I'm sent, and they describe the heroine as 'incredibly beautiful,' I wonder why they sent it to me.