Quotes About Self-perception

I think I'm absolutely perfect. Because if I'm not good at something I completely banish it from my mind. Completely. Like it never happened.

There are actors who don't get out of their Barbie Doll avatars, but that's not who I am.

I really don't see little girls growing up and thinking, 'Oh, I'm going to morph myself so I look like Barbie.'

I feel like a Barbie.

I think I sound like Barry White.

I felt like I was better at football than I am in basketball.

So many actors say, 'Oh, I can't bear to see myself on screen,' but it's not true. Everyone loves to see themselves from a good angle.

I'm not a beautiful person and I never have been.

I will say I would much rather play someone who isn't the most spellbinding beautiful person because I am not that person and I don't want to worry about my angles or how good I look on that day.

I've got little ankles and a bit of a belly, so it makes me look rather an egg on legs.

I don't feel like my job is to be beloved.

The way we construct consciousness is to tell the story of ourselves to ourselves, the story of who we believe we are. I feel that a really public shaming or humiliation is a conflict between the person trying to write his own narrative and society trying to write a different narrative for the person. One story tries to overwrite the other. And so to survive you have to own your story.

Patty knew, in her heart, that he was wrong in his impression of her. And the mistake she went to go on to make, the really big life mistake, was to go along with Walter's version of her in spite of knowing that it wasn't right. He seemed so certain of her goodness that eventually he wore her down.

To her the strangest thought of all was that she might be extraordinarily appealing. It went against everything she believed in, or at least against everything she wanted to believe in; because, deep down, in her most honest heart, maybe every person considered herself extraordinarily appealing. Maybe this was just a human thing.

since a person couldn't exist in two places at once, the more he existed as the Internet's image of him, the less he felt like he existed as a flesh-and-blood person.

the more he existed as the Internet's image of him, the less he felt like he existed as a flesh-and-blood person.

Yeah, maybe you look a little less familiar yourself.

It's easier to be a character in a story than the star of your own tragedy.

Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and outside.

Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and outside.

Oskar: I'm God! Thomas: You're an atheist. Oskar: I don't exist!

I winked at my own littleness, as people do at their own faults.

No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.

Estoy solo y no hay nadie en el espejo.