Quotes About Self-perception

I always wanted to be the pretty girl, but I thought I wasn't. When I started acting and getting pretty girl roles, I felt like I was just pretending, and nobody saw I was just this big nerd.

I think I've always had a 40-year-old body, and now that I'm actually there I'm like, 'Hey, pretty good, huh?'

I always assume I look better than I actually do. I'll feel pretty good about myself when I leave the house, then I'll see a picture and think, 'Crap, I had no idea that's what I was looking like.'

I work very hard on my body, and I'm not just known for my six-pack or my body. I also believe that I have pretty good camera presence.

I'm not a good dancer.

I think everybody thinks they're an amazing singer, but I'm one of those guys who realizes where his limitations are, and it's definitely with singing and dancing.

To me, there are things you're good at and things you're not so good at. For some reason, I'm good at darker characters. It has to do with how you look.

I might play darts on TV now but really I've not changed.

I don't think I ever feel sexy. I don't think that's for me to decide, if I'm sexy or not.

Being positive may be a character defect of mine.

I've spent the better part of two decades running both toward and away from an image - the Hollywood image - that had come to define me.

I always define egotistical thoughts as the thoughts I think other people have of me.

I don't think of myself as anyone special, and I would not know how to define myself.

I don't think being white defines who I am.

If I don't measure up as an American writer, at least leave me to my delusion.

I wanted to become a model out of delusion. It was always something that I wanted to do, I just never thought that I would have the opportunity.

Do I consider myself sexy? It all depends on the way I'm feeling. When I'm happy inside, that's when I feel most sexy.

At the beginning of 'A Christmas Carol,' Scrooge embodies one of the central tenets of depression: that one has always been this way - and always will be.

I see that people now recognize me in the street. But it doesn't change me in the depth of my being.

'Tough' is one of the last adjectives I would use to describe myself.

I don't look at myself as a designer; I'm focused on music.

I've never thought of myself as a classic leading man. I'm a character actor who happens to play leading roles. Come on, look at me. I'm really Desperate Dan.

This is what's hard: I know I'm legally a man, but I'm also male-minded, despite having the female appearance.

One of the biggest pieces of advice I'd give you is: Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality. If you're in high school, there are definitely things being said about you. Don't let them determine who you are.