Quotes About Self-perception

I'm not really a femme fatale.

I don't, for the record, have a Tweety Bird fetish.

I can't control what people think of me. I can't control any of that. I can only control what I do on the field.

I've always mid-lined myself where I don't really expect myself to do big things or to win big fights. It's not a lack of confidence, it's just that I think to an extent that you need a bit of an ego if you're going to think that you're going to conquer something.

I had always considered myself a martial artist who fights rather than a fighter who learned martial arts - although I probably flowed between those two categories over the years.

I always saw myself as a sideman. I figured I'd end up a drummer.

Maybe, as a Chinese woman, I was never told I would be a filmmaker, so I didn't have the ego set up.

I don't necessarily see myself as an experienced filmmaker just because I've been in a few movies.

I'll always see myself as a British filmmaker, powerfully so.

I've always been called 'Suki,' but my actual first name is Alice.

I never liked my last name or my first name, but it's not as bad as Frigidaire, so it's fine.

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.

I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then.

We'll become in our lives whoever the people we love the most say we are.

I'd love to look incredibly glamorous, but I am a wholesome, comforting nanny type: I think I look like an advertisement for wholemeal flour or something.

It's true that I have never met any man whom I thought altogether resembled me - but only because my faults are so enormous.

I know people who've had a nose job, and they've walked out feeling a million dollars, and their confidence is tenfold. Good on them! Natural beauty comes in all different shapes and sizes, but if you think surgery would right something you have a problem with, then why shouldn't you do it?

I have Slavic fat pads that make me look like a chipmunk and arched predatory eyebrows. With that, you're not going to get funny. That's why I play so many bad guys.

No one knows Anne's better side, and that's why most people can't stand me. Oh, I can be an amusing clown for an afternoon, but after that, everyone's had enough of me to last a month.

My personal life is invented for me, so why bother?

I started thinking: 'Okay, what's wrong with wearing a bikini? I look better than I looked in quite a few years, so why not? What am I afraid of?

I play the Wicked Queen in 'Snow White.' I'm not typecast. It's terrible. I should be Prince Charming.

No, it's not comfortable; I hate watching myself. You don't like when you hear your voice on your voicemail; imagine having to see yourself 30 feet wide and 30 feet big.

A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between disappointment and pathology.